Problems in air cisternography
Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery
|July 1, 1986
Abstract:
False-positive computed tomography with air cisternography is suspected with either air in the lateral internal auditory canal or a flat filling defect. False-negative air cisternography should be suspected if the internal auditory canal has a mottled appearance or if audiometric or auditory brain-stem response deficit progresses.
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