Radiological detection of extracapsular spread in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cervical metastases

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1783-1787

  Url, C ^a   Schartinger, V H ^a   Riechelmann, H ^a   Gluckert R ^a   Maier, H ^b   Trumpp, M ^a   Widmann, G ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ct; Extracapsular spread; Head and neck neoplasm; Lymph node metastases

Indexed keywords

FAT; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ARTERY; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; PATHOLOGIST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY;

CT; EXTRACAPSULAR SPREAD; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASM; LYMPH NODE METASTASES;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84893683466     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2013.04.024     Document Type: Article

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