Delayed complications of radiotherapy treatment for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: imaging findings

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-203

  King, A D ^a   Ahuja, A T ^a   Yeung, D K ^a   Wong, J K T ^a   Lee, Y Y P ^a   Lam, W W M ^a   Ho, S S M ^a   Yu, S C H ^a   Leung, S F ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; STEROID;

BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY THROMBOSIS; CHONDROSARCOMA; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MENINGIOMA; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOSE CAVITY TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OSTEITIS; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION NECROSIS; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SARCOMA; SKULL BASE TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN INJURIES; CAROTID ARTERY INJURIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUCOSITIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; OSTEITIS; RADIATION INJURIES;

EID: 33846882653     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2006.10.011     Document Type: Review

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