Determining Etiology of Facial Nerve Paralysis With MRI: Challenges in Malignancy Detection.
Anthony M TolisanoJacob B HunterMark SakaiJoe Walter KutzWilliam MooreMarco PinhoBrandon IsaacsonPublished in: The Annals of otology, rhinology, and laryngology (2019)
MRI for FNP is often initially performed with an incorrect protocol and thus may fail to reliably differentiate neoplastic from inflammatory FNP even when interpreted by experienced clinicians. Nevertheless, expert readers correctly diagnosed 87.5% of malignant causes of FNP despite these limitations.