Imaging of nasopharyngeal inflammatory pseudotumours: Differential from nasopharyngeal carcinoma

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 83, Issue 985, 2010, Pages 8-16

  Lu, C H ^a   Yang, C Y ^a   Wang, C P ^a   Yang, C C ^a   Liu, H M ^a   Chen, Ya Fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NASOPHARYNX; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NECK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTITIS MEDIA; PAIN; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; RADIOLOGY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL DISEASES; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 76149104573     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/98400347     Document Type: Article

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