A venous cause for facial canal enlargement: multidetector row CT findings and histopathologic correlation.
An enlarged facial nerve canal can be a seen in both pathologic and nonpathologic processes. The purposes of this report are the following: 1) to present a rare cause of bony facial nerve canal enlargement, due to an enlarged vein, with high-resolution MDCT and histopathologic correlation; and 2) to discuss the vascular anatomy that gives rise to this variant.
Moonis
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Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. gmoonis@bidmc.harvard.edu
Mani
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O'Malley
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Merchant
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Curtin
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D000368:Aged; D005154:Facial Nerve / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010690:Phlebography; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014680:Veins / Q000002:abnormalities*
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