Head and Neck: Skull Base Imaging
Open Access
- 10 October 2017
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurosurgery
- Vol. 82 (3), 255-267
- https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyx492
Abstract
There are a myriad of head and neck pathologies that extend from the extracranial to the intracranial compartment, traversing the skull base, and knowledge of the imaging appearance of this pathology is critical to practicing neurosurgeons. This article reviews some of the important inflammatory or acquired head and neck pathology along the skull base, neoplastic skull base lesions, and the intracranial extension of head and neck malignancy. Focus will be on the relevant anatomy, appropriate imaging protocols to evaluate these processes, as well as the differentiating imaging findings on computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.Keywords
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