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Gadolinium-Enhanced MRI and Positron Emission Tomography in Bell’s palsy: A Preliminary Report

Gadolinium-Enhanced MRI and Positron Emission Tomography in Bell’s palsy: A Preliminary Report

Authors :
A. Lilja
K.-Å. Thuomas
Lars Jonsson
M. Engström
M. Bergström
Source :
The Facial Nerve ISBN: 9783540576860
Publication Year :
1994
Publisher :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1994.

Abstract

An inflammatory edema with secondary ischemia of the facial nerve may be the cause of Bell’s palsy [1, 5]. This may accord with the transient facial nerve enhancement on gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (GadMRI) that we recently have reported [4]. In this previous study [4] we used carbohydrate and gadolinium in an attempt to improve the GadMRI technique. The aim of the present preliminary study was to see if readministration of gadolinium may give additional information when examining patients with Bell’s palsy on high-Tesla MR equipment. Furthermore, we report our limited experience from three investigations using positron emission tomography (PET), a unique imaging technique which allows in vivo measurements of the anatomical distribution and rates of specific biochemical reactions [9].

Details

ISBN :
978-3-540-57686-0
ISBNs :
9783540576860
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Facial Nerve ISBN: 9783540576860
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........75456ee9c8fc8a5ec8d2d02c2bce1756
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85090-5_118