Objective (s) To evaluate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a range of
diagnostic strategies for investigating patients with unilateral hearing loss and/or tinnitus …

Vestibular schwannoma (VS) is a slow-growing benign neoplasm. There has been an
evolution in the management of VS from active treatments (microsurgery and stereotactic …

Objectives To determine if high‐resolution T2‐weighted (HRT2) magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) is a comparably accurate and economical alternative to the gold standard of …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: While enhanced T1WI is considered the “gold standard”
for detection of internal auditory canal pathology, unenhanced fluid-sensitive sequences …

The entire topic of temporal bone imaging cannot be addressed in a single Radiologic
Clinics of North America article. In consultation with the editor, We have decided to limit our …

The failure of standard ABR measures to detect small (≤ 1 cm) acoustic tumors has led to
the use of enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the standard to screen for small …

Objective Evaluation of the ability of screening high-resolution, nonenhanced, fast spin echo
(FSE) T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the internal auditory canal (IAC) …

We report the clinical and MR imaging findings in two African-American patients with
manifestations of sickle cell disease affecting the inner ear. Both suffered sudden-onset …

The cerebellopontine (CP) angle is bound anterolaterally by the posterior aspect of the
petrous temporal bone and posteromedially by the cerebellum and pons. It contains …

Acoustic neuromas are rare tumors of the vestibular nerve. Although they are benign, their
location within the internal auditory canal and growth into the cerebellopontine angle result …