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Ramsay Hunt syndrome mimicking acoustic neuroma on MRI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

P. Goldsmith*
Affiliation:
Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
I. Zammit
Affiliation:
Departments of Radiologyt, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
D. Meikle
Affiliation:
Departments of Otolaryngology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
*
Dr P. Goldsmith, Level 7, Nuffield Department of Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU. Fax: 01865 222901.

Abstract

The authors present a case of Ramsay Hunt syndrome in whish the MRI appearance mimicked that of an intracanalicular acoustic neuroma.

Type
Radiology in Focus
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1995

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