MR imaging criteria for the prediction of extranodal spread of metastatic cancer in the neck

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1355-1359

  Kimura, Y ^a   Sumi, M ^a   Sakihama, N ^b   Tanaka, F ^b   Takahashi, H ^b   Nakamura, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AKINESIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERSTITIUM; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 49749106640     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1088     Document Type: Article

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