Comparison of MR imaging, CT, and angiography in the evaluation of the enlarged cavernous sinus.

@article{Hirsch1988ComparisonOM,
  title={Comparison of MR imaging, CT, and angiography in the evaluation of the enlarged cavernous sinus.},
  author={W. L. Hirsch and F G Hryshko and Laligam N. Sekhar and James A. Brunberg and Emanuel Kanal and Richard E. Latchaw and H D Curtin},
  journal={AJR. American journal of roentgenology},
  year={1988},
  volume={151 5},
  pages={
          1015-23
        }
}
Twenty-one patients with enlargement of the cavernous sinus were studied with CT and MR imaging. Eighteen of the patients also had cerebral angiography. MR was superior to CT in differentiating parasellar aneurysms from neoplastic masses. MR was also superior to both CT and angiography in defining the relationships of cavernous sinus neoplasms to the internal carotid artery, pituitary gland, optic chiasm, infundibulum, and fifth cranial nerves. Only in the definition of bone erosion or… 
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