Patterns of Perineural Tumor Spread in Head and Neck Cancer

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 435-446

  Moonis, Gul ^a,b   Cunnane, Mary Beth ^a   Emerick, Kevin ^a   Curtin, Hugh ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenoid cystic carcinoma; Facial nerve; Perineural tumor spread; Skin cancer metastases; Trigeminal nerve

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FACIAL NERVE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; METASTASIS; NERVE TUMOR; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; REVIEW; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CRANIAL NERVE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NERVE TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84864823293     PISSN: 10649689     EISSN: 15579786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mric.2012.05.006     Document Type: Review

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