Tumor thickness and paralingual distance of coronal MR imaging predicts cervical node metastases in oral tongue carcinoma

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-50

  Okura, Masaya ^a   Iida, S ^a   Aikawa, T ^a   Adachi, T ^a   Yoshimura, N ^a   Yamada, T ^a   Kogo, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TONGUE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38349019467     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0749     Document Type: Article

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