The application of ultrasound in detecting lymph nodal recurrence in the treated neck of head and neck cancer patients

The application of ultrasound in detecting lymph nodal recurrence in the treated neck of head and neck cancer patients

Abstract Early detection of neck lymph node (LN) recurrence is paramount in improving the prognosis of treated head and neck cancer patients. Ultrasound (US) with US-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) and core needle biopsy (CNB) have been shown to have great accuracy for LN diagnoses in the untrea...

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Main Authors: Chi-Maw Lin, Cheng-Ping Wang, Chun-Nan Chen, Che-Yi Lin, Ting-Yi Li, Chen-Han Chou, Ya-Ching Hsu, Po-Yen Kuo, Tsung-Lin Yang, Pei-Jen Lou, Jenq-Yuh Ko, Tseng-Cheng Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04039-3

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04039-3

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