Preoperative MRI Evaluation of Thyroid Cartilage Invasion in Patients with Laryngohypopharyngeal Cancer: Comparison of Contrast-Enhanced 2D Spin-Echo and 3D T1-Weighted Radial Gradient Recalled-Echo Techniques.
Chae Jung ParkJun Hwee KimSung Soo AhnSeung-Koo LeeYoon Woo KohJinna KimPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2021)
Contrast-enhanced 3D gradient recalled-echo was diagnostically superior in identifying neoplastic thyroid cartilage invasion compared with 2D spin-echo T1WI in patients with laryngohypopharyngeal cancer, and therefore, may provide more accurate preoperative staging.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance imaging
- magnetic resonance
- diffusion weighted imaging
- computed tomography
- papillary thyroid
- squamous cell
- cell migration
- patients undergoing
- room temperature
- lymph node metastasis
- squamous cell carcinoma
- extracellular matrix
- single molecule
- pet ct
- young adults
- network analysis
- clinical evaluation