| Literature DB >> 20395388 |
G Moonis1, K Mani, J O'Malley, S Merchant, H D Curtin.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20395388 PMCID: PMC7965551 DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2094
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AJNR Am J Neuroradiol ISSN: 0195-6108 Impact factor: 3.825