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 LiPublished 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.
Keyphrases
- squamous cell
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- computed tomography
- resting state
- magnetic resonance
- white matter
- patients undergoing
- dual energy
- image quality
- diffusion weighted imaging
- functional connectivity
- clinical practice
- cerebral ischemia
- positron emission tomography
- spinal cord
- multiple sclerosis
- radiation therapy
- brain injury
- lymph node metastasis
- spinal cord injury