Clinical impact of short tau inversion recovery MRI on staging and management in patients with cervical lymph node metastases of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 928-937

  De Bondt, Bert Jan ^a   Stokroos, Robert ^a   Casselman, Jan W ^b   Van Engelshoven, Jos M A ^a   Beets Tan, Regina G H ^a   Kessels, Fons G H ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b General Hospital St Jan   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Head and neck neoplasms; Imaging; Lymph node metastases; MRI; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; NECK DISSECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT TAU INVERSION RECOVERY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 67650446989     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21060     Document Type: Article

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