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J Oral Maxillofac Surg
November 2002
Department of Oral Medicine and Oral Surgery, University of Valencia Medical and Dental School, Valencia, Spain.
The vagus nerve, as a result of its protracted course from the brain stem to the abdomen, can present a difficult imaging problem when it is compromised by a clinically occult lesion. The clinical and radiologic records of 48 patients with suspected vagus nerve dysfunction were reviewed to derive an efficient and effective approach to imaging this patient population. An imaging algorithm is proposed in which vagal neuropathies are divided both clinically and radiologically into proximal and distal categories.
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