Staging computed tomography of the thorax for nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 369-372

  Leung, Sing Fai ^a   Cheung, Humairah ^a   Teo, Peter ^a   Lam, Wynnie Wai Man ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Contiguous; CT; Mediastinum; Nasopharynx; Thorax

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034046778     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0347(200007)22:4<369::AID-HED9>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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