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Research status and clinical applications of magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate the neurovascular relationship in primary hemifacial spasm
LÜ Gaoquan  CHEN Nan 

Cite this article as: Lü GQ, Chen N. Research status and clinical applications of magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate the neurovascular relationship in primary hemifacial spasm[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2022, 13(5): 140-143. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2022.05.029.


[Abstract] Primary hemifacial spasm is the abnormal movement of facial muscles caused by the compression of facial nerve by blood vessels, which seriously affects patients' quality of life. The operation of microvascular decompression is the most effective method to treatment hemifacial spasm. High resolution imaging of the facial nerve and its ambient blood vessels was performed before surgery to accurately locate the compression site, providing the reference for making surgical plans and predicting surgical outcomes. The development of magnetic resonance neurovascular imaging sequence and post-processing technology provides an accurate image method for preoperative judgment of the relationship between facial nerve and vessels. This article reviews magnetic resonance cisternography and angiography techniques, image reconstruction and fusion techniques, clinical manifestations of vascular compression in different areas of facial nerve, the correlation between neurovascular relationship and surgical prognosis in patients with facial spasm.
[Keywords] cranial nerves；hemifacial spasm；neurovascular compression；magnetic resonance cisternography；magnetic resonance angiography；microvascular decompression surgery；image post-processing；root exit zone of facial nerve

LÜ Gaoquan1, 2   CHEN Nan1*  

1 Department of Radiation and Nuclear Medicine, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China

2 Department of Radiology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China

Chen N, E-mail: chenzen8057@sina.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

Received  2021-11-24
Accepted  2022-04-29
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2022.05.029
Cite this article as: Lü GQ, Chen N. Research status and clinical applications of magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate the neurovascular relationship in primary hemifacial spasm[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2022, 13(5): 140-143. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2022.05.029.

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