A Venous Cause for Facial Canal Enlargement: Multidetector Row CT Findings and Histopathologic Correlation
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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.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Neuroradiology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0195-6108,1936-959X
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a2094