Imaging of Acute Head and Neck Infections

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 73-83

  Gonzalez Beicos, Aldo ^a   Nunez, Diego ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute infection; Floor of the mouth; Paranasal; Suprahyoid and infrahyoid neck

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CAROTID SPACE INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRAHYOID NECK INFECTION; MASTICATOR SPACE INFECTION; MOUTH INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PARAPHARYNGEAL SPACE INFECTION; PAROTID SPACE INFECTION; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHARYNGEAL MUCOSAL SPACE INFECTION; PREVERTEBRAL PARAVERTEBRAL SPACE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROPHARYNGEAL SPACE INFECTION; REVIEW; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; FACE; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; INFECTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81455132539     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2011.08.004     Document Type: Review

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