Ultrasonographic assessment for response to radiochemotherapy of metastatic cervical lymph nodes in head and neck cancer: Usefulness of grey-scale and color Doppler sonography

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1081-1087

  Yusa, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^a   Iwasa, Satoshi ^a   Ueno, Ei ^a   Tohno, Eriko ^a   Onizawa, Kojiro ^a   Yanagawa, Toru ^a   Watanabe, Teruo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical lymph node; Color Doppler sonography; Grey scale imaging; Head and neck cancer; Metastasis; Radiochemotherapy; Response; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CERVICAL LYMPH NODES; COLOR DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; GREY SCALE IMAGING; RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINATE CALCIUM; PEPLEOMYCIN; PIRARUBICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 0034281448     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(00)00228-3     Document Type: Article

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