PET/CT in the evaluation of patients with squamous cell cancer of the head and neck

International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 332-336

  Goshen, Elinor ^a,b   Davidson, T ^a,b   Yahalom, R ^a,b   Talmi, Y P ^a,b   Zwas, S T ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Head and neck; PET CT; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33344457697     PISSN: 09015027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2005.08.003     Document Type: Article

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