Osteoradionecrosis after radiation therapy for head and neck cancer: Differentiation from recurrent disease with CT and PET/CT imaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1405-1411

  Alhilali, L ^a   Reynolds, A R ^a   Fakhran, Saeed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PET-CT SCANNER; RADIATION INJURY; TRABECULAR BONE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84904991835     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3879     Document Type: Article

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