Imaging in cervical nodal metastases of unknown primary

Cancer Imaging

Volumn 11, Issue SPEC. ISS. A, 2011, Pages

  Hermans, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Clinically unknown primary; Computed tomography; Head and neck cancer; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; NECK; PATHOLOGY; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NECK; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84866978524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14707330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1102/1470-7330.2011.9004     Document Type: Review

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