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Is it necessary for patients with potentially resectable esophageal squamous cell cancer to receive routine preoperative brain MRI/CT?

Xiufeng WeiPeng LuoXiankai ChenZhen WangLei XuHounai XieYafan YangRuixiang ZhangYongkui YuHaomiao LiQi LiuJianjun QinYin Li
Published in: Thoracic cancer (2022)
) thoracic ESCC. However, due to the low incidence, the value of brain MRI/CT as a routinely preoperational examination in potentially resectable esophageal squamous cell cancer is rather limited. Therefore, preoperative brain MRI/CT should not be recommended as a routine preoperative examination for ESCC.
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