Management of patients with primary unknown metastatic cervical adenopathy
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The "small, dark tonsil" in patients presenting with metastatic cervical lymphadenopathy from an unknown primary.
When squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) involves the palatine tonsils, they are generally enlarged and demonstrate intermediate to high signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images and enhance after gadolinium administration. We have identified two patients with SCC of the tonsil where the affected tonsil has low signal intensity on T2-weighted MR images and is smaller than the contralateral normal ton...
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عنوان ژورنال: Practica Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica
سال: 1978
ISSN: 1884-4545,0032-6313
DOI: 10.5631/jibirin.71.80