Bone invasion in oral cancer patients: A comparison between Orthopantamograph, conventional computed tomography, and single positron emission computed tomography

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 438-441

  Kushraj, Thashika ^a   Chatra, Laxmikanth ^a   Shenai, Prashanth ^a   Rao, Prasanna Kumar ^a  

^a YENEPOYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bone invasion; conventional CT; orthopantamograph; radio nuclide imaging; single positron emission computed tomography; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUTH CARCINOMA; ORTHOPANTAMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

BONE AND BONES; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856501213     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.92012     Document Type: Article

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