Detection of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma by MR Imaging: Diagnostic Accuracy of MRI Compared with Endoscopy and Endoscopic Biopsy Based on Long-Term Follow-Up.
A D KingA C VlantisT W C YuenBenjamin King Hong LawK S BhatiaB C Y ZeeJ K S WooA T C ChanK C A ChanA T AhujaPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2015)
MR imaging detected the 12% of nasopharyngeal carcinomas that were endoscopically invisible, including 1 cancer that remained endoscopically occult for several years. Lymphoid hyperplasia reduced the specificity of MR imaging.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- ultrasound guided
- magnetic resonance
- computed tomography
- papillary thyroid
- diffusion weighted imaging
- high grade
- fine needle aspiration
- squamous cell carcinoma
- young adults
- label free
- small bowel
- loop mediated isothermal amplification
- lymph node metastasis
- endoscopic submucosal dissection