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Postoperative Temporal Bone Imaging

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Radiology of the Petrous Bone

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Postoperative changes can be very subtle, especially after ossicular chain reconstruction, or very complex as in middle ear and mastoid surgery for chronic middle ear disease, including cholesteatoma; therefore, comprehensive information regarding the surgical procedure(s) performed and the motivation for the examination should be addressed to the radiologist. Also, clinical information and the results of paraclinical testing [audiometry, auditory brain-stem responses (ABR), etc.] can be helpful in analyzing the postoperative changes in these patients. Preferably, previous pre- and/or postoperative examinations - sometimes realized in other institutions - should be available for comparison.

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    Luc Van Den Hauwe MD

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Van Den Hauwe, L. (2004). Postoperative Temporal Bone Imaging. In: Lemmerling, M., Kollias, S.S. (eds) Radiology of the Petrous Bone. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18836-7_14

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