Predictive ability of the CT to evaluate cervical lymph nodes in head and neck tumours;Capacidad predictiva de la TC para evaluar las adenopatías cervicales en los tumores de cabeza y cuello

Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 443-447

  Iñarra Unzurrunzaga, Esther ^a   Gorriño Angulo, Miren ^a   Vidales Arechaga, Luisa ^a   Aguirre Larracoechea, Urko ^a   Iriondo Bedialauneta, Juan Ramón ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE GALDAKAO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cervical lymph nodes; Computed tomography; Head and neck tumours

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 80955142614     PISSN: 00016519     EISSN: 19883013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otorri.2011.06.004     Document Type: Article

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