Osteoradionecrosis of the hyoid bone after intra-arterial chemoradiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer: MR imaging findings.
Hiromitsu HatakeyamaNoriyuki FujimaKazuhiko TsuchiyaKenji MizoguchiTakatsugu MizumachiTomohiro SakashitaSatoshi KanoAkihiro HommaSatoshi FukudaPublished in: Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society (2017)
Our MR imaging study showed that ORN of the hyoid bone is not particularly rare in patients with oropharyngeal cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy. Clinicians should evaluate images carefully to prevent the development of severe complication due to infection associated with ORN of the hyoid bone.
Keyphrases
- papillary thyroid
- bone mineral density
- rectal cancer
- squamous cell
- soft tissue
- bone loss
- locally advanced
- bone regeneration
- contrast enhanced
- deep learning
- magnetic resonance imaging
- early onset
- palliative care
- lymph node metastasis
- childhood cancer
- squamous cell carcinoma
- convolutional neural network
- machine learning