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01-12-2016 | Original Article

Comparison of brain MRI angiography and brain MRI cisternography in patients with hemifacial spasm

Authors: Ruhsen Öcal, Tuba Tunç, Zeynep Özözen Ayas, Ömer Yılmaz, Levent Ertuğrul İnan

Published in: Acta Neurologica Belgica | Issue 4/2016

Abstract

Objective

The aim of this study was to compare the ability of brain magnetic resonance imaging angiography and brain magnetic resonance imaging cisternography of showing the neurovascular contiguity of the facial nerve in patients with hemifacial spasm.

Method

This study included a total of 35 patients (28 females, 7 males), with an average age of 57.5 ± 13.8 years, who presented to our outpatient clinic of movement disorders. All patients were prospectively applied brain magnetic resonance imaging angiography and brain magnetic resonance imaging cisternography, and the results were evaluated by a radiologist who was blind to study protocol.

Results

The study included 35 patients, of whom 28 (80 %) were female and 7 (20 %) were male. Brain magnetic resonance imaging angiography demonstrated facial nerve compression of vascular origin in 5 (14.3 %) patients presenting with the clinical presentation of hemifacial spasm. Neurovascular compression of facial nerve was shown by brain magnetic resonance imaging cisternography in 13 (37.1 %) patients.

Conclusion

No statistically significant difference was found between brain magnetic resonance imaging angiography and brain magnetic resonance imaging cisternography techniques in detecting a compressive interaction causing hemifacial spasm between facial nerve and adjacent vascular structures (p > 0.05).

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Title: Comparison of brain MRI angiography and brain MRI cisternography in patients with hemifacial spasm
Authors: Ruhsen Öcal
Tuba Tunç
Zeynep Özözen Ayas
Ömer Yılmaz
Levent Ertuğrul İnan
Publication date: 01-12-2016
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Acta Neurologica Belgica / Issue 4/2016
Print ISSN: 0300-9009
Electronic ISSN: 2240-2993
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13760-016-0619-0

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