Endoscopic Transnasal Approach for Cholesterol Granuloma of the Petrous Apex
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Endoscopic Endonasal Resection of Cholesterol Granuloma of the Petrous Apex
A 43years old man presented with 6 month history of intermittent right hemicranial headache and ipsilateral conductive hearingloss. The patient had no historyof head trauma. The MRI demonstrated a large and expansile right petrous apex lesion hyper intense on both T1and T2-weighted scans, without diffusion restriction or internal contrast enhancement. The CT scan showed and expansile and lyticl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Neurological Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2090-6668,2090-6676
DOI: 10.1155/2015/481231