Cervical lymphadenopathy: Sonographic differentiation between tuberculous nodes and nodal metastases from non-head and neck carcinomas

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 383-389

  Ying, Michael ^a   Ahuja, Anil T ^a   Evans, Rhodri ^a,b   King, Walter ^a   Metreweli, Constantine ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MORRISTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cervical lymph nodes; Infraclavicular carcinomas; Tuberculosis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 0031656615     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0096(199810)26:8<383::AID-JCU2>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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