An imaging-based classification for the cervical nodes designed as an adjunct to recent clinically based nodal classifications

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 388-396

  Som, Peter M ^a,d   Curtin, Hugh D ^b   Mancuso, Anthony A ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRICOID; HYOID BONE; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; STERNUM; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND;

EID: 0032900493     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.125.4.388     Document Type: Article

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