Thin-slice MDCT of the neck: Impact on cancer staging

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 785-789

  Lell, Michael M ^a,b   Gmelin, Christian ^b   Panknin, Christoph ^a,c   Eckel, Karin T ^b   Schmid, Matthias ^b   Bautz, Werner A ^b   Greess, Holger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CT; Larynx; MDCT; Neoplasm; Pharynx

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KAPPA STATISTICS; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 39749150295     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3081     Document Type: Article

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