Overstaging of cartilage invasion by multidetector CT scan for laryngeal cancer and its potential effect on the use of organ preservation with chemoradiation

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 84, Issue 997, 2011, Pages 64-69

  Li, B ^a   Bobinski, M ^a   Gandour Edwards, R ^a   Farwell, D G ^a   Chen, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CARTILAGE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; HYPOPHARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; IMAGE QUALITY; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARTILAGE; LARYNX CARTILAGE CANCER; LARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NECK; ORGAN PRESERVATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL CARTILAGES; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650633653     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/66700901     Document Type: Article

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