Diagnostic dilemma involving calcification in the parapharyngeal space: Metastatic thyroid carcinoma masquerading as a deep lobe parotid mass

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 697-702

  Carter, Laurie C ^a   Uthman, Ahmed ^a   Drinnan, Alan J ^a   Loree, Thom R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNX CANCER; PHARYNX DISEASE; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR;

CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031310559     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1079-2104(97)90375-9     Document Type: Article

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