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[Guest guest]

The patient has a deviated septum....enlarged turbinates and a polyp s/l

tisit or pizit on the right.

Any takers?

Cheryl, CMT

[Guest guest]

I believe you are looking for air cisternogram and the doc just ran the

words together. In Stedman's Radiology Book, there is gas cisternography

and air cisternogram would be an acceptable alternative name for this

test. A cistern is a reservior or cavity. These studies are rarely if

ever done any more because CT scans are easier. When I was in

radiography school in the early 80's I remember the techs talking about

this study where air or contast is introduced into the sinuses which

communicate with ears through the eustachian tubes. It was a way to see

if there is blockage or growths in these areas. This seems to fit with

the history of an acoustic neuroma.

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 15:52:53 -0700 " " writes:

> Any help with the below would be appreciated. TIA

>

> This patient is a pleasant 52-year-old female who presents with a

> total left

> hearing loss. She still has complaints of bilateral tinnitus and

> occasional

> unsteadiness. She has not actually had true whirling vertigo. She

> gives a

> significant history that she had radiation to her skull base as a

> child for

> nasal polyps and adenoid tissue and most recently she had to have

> breast

> surgery for breast carcinoma. She is quite concerned that her lesion

> may be

> malignant in nature. She has as well a history of having a

> reportedly *s/l

> airosysternogram* done in Connecticut in the 1980s, at that time

> suggesting

> that she had an acoustic neuroma, but had felt that it had somehow

> resolved

> itself. She denies any headaches of facial numbness.

>

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