Imaging of pediatric neck masses

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 617-632

  Friedman, Elliott R ^a   John, Susan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Mass; MRI; Neck; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CELLULITIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EXCISION; GRANULOMA; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LIPOMA; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SCLEROTHERAPY; TERATOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; TONSIL DISEASE;

CHILD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK; PEDIATRICS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; THYROGLOSSAL CYST; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 79960909691     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2011.05.005     Document Type: Review

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