Tailoring distant metastatic imaging for patients with clinically localized undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 688-693

  Kumar, Mahesh B ^a   Lu, Jiade Jay ^a   Loh, Kwok Seng ^a   Chong, Lai Ming June ^a   Soo, Ross ^a   Goh, Boon Cher ^a   Tan, Kim Siang Luke ^a   Shakespeare, T P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Metastases; Nasopharyngeal cancer; Staging evaluation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BONE; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; X RAYS;

BONE SCAN; LIVER ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ONCOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 1242315597     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(03)01618-3     Document Type: Article

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