ORAL CAVITY: INFECTIOUS AND NONINFECTIOUS INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS ROBERT HERMANS, ANTHONY A. MANCUSO, AND WILLIAM O. COLLINS KEY POINTS Imaging, especially computed tomography, is often useful in the management of acute…
THYROID GLAND INFLAMMATORY DISEASE AND TRAUMA ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Imaging is usually of limited value in thyroid inflammatory conditions. Imaging can suggest an alternative diagnosis or associated diagnosis…
TEMPORAL BONE TRAUMA BERIT M. VERBIST, ANTHONY A. MANCUSO, AND PATRICK J. ANTONELLI KEY POINTS Computed tomography is the primary study for evaluating a patient with temporal bone trauma. The…
DEVELOPMENTAL CRANIOFACIAL ANOMALIES: SYNDROMIC, CLEFTS, ENCEPHALOCELES (BRAIN HETEROTOPIAS), AND NASAL DERMOIDS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO, MARY FRAN SMITH, AND BERIT M. VERBIST KEY POINTS Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging are…
RETROPHARYNGEAL AND VISCERAL COMPARTMENT INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography provide the critical and usually definitive data needed in the diagnosis and management…
FACIAL NERVE: DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS BERIT M. VERBIST, ANTHONY A. MANCUSO, AND PATRICK J. ANTONELLI KEY POINTS Peripheral facial nerve palsy that presents in infancy or in a younger patient may…
SINONASAL PRIMARY BONE ORIGIN TUMORS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO AND JOHN W. WERNING KEY POINTS Computed tomography can be highly specific in the diagnosis of the rare occurrence of primary craniofacial…
Nasopharynx: Noninfectious Inflammatory Conditions ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS Imaging in noninfectious inflammatory diseases is generally nonspecific for the definitive diagnosis purposes but can lead to the next logical step…
TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA AND OTHER TRIGEMINAL NEUROPATHIES Anthony A. Mancuso and Berit M. Verbist Magnetic resonance, sometimes including magnetic resonance angiography, is the primary tool when looking for a structural cause…
CERVICOTHORACIC JUNCTION: BRACHIAL PLEXUS INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS ANTHONY A. MANCUSO KEY POINTS A cervicothoracic junction inflammatory condition acutely threatening the brachial plexus is relatively uncommon. Imaging can most often provide a…
