To estimate the accuracy of different radiologic criteria used to detect cervical lymph node
metastasis in patients with head and neck carcinoma, seven different characteristics of 2,719 …

Although computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging have contributed to the
ability to identify metastatic disease in head and neck Cancer, inadequacies in evaluating …

A comparison was made of clinical diagnosis by ultrasound (US) and CT examination in 52
patients who had undergone radical neck dissection. The site, size, depth and other patterns …

Although the most important advan-tage of elective treatment is that the policy warrants an
as-early-as-possible therapy for occult metastasis, the disad-vantages are overtreatment …

T HE detailed and informed evaluation of the cervical lymph nodes may represent one of the
most challenging problems that a radiologist faces today. The apparent difficulty of the task …

The status of the cervical lymph nodes is the single most important prognostic factor in head
and neck cancer. Unfortunately, clinical assessment of the neck is not very accurate …

This study seeks to establish whether CT can accurately detect cancer in cervical lymph
nodes. Retrospective correlation of CT scans and surgical findings in 51 patients with …

Squamous cell carcinoma is the most commonly encountered malignant neoplasm of the
upper aerodigestive tract. The most important factor that influences therapeutic outcome is …

A series of 618 patients with neck dissections were performed in 455 consecutively admitted
patients with head and neck carcinomas at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, from 1976 to …

Forty-one patients were examined (39 prospectively and 2 retrospectively) with computed
tomography (CT) to determine its value in staging cervical and retropharyngeal nodal …