BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The presence of cervical lymph node metastases is an important prognostic factor for oral tongue cancer. The accurate preoperative assessment is essential for treatment. Several studies have suggested that histologic tumor thickness is related to the metastases. The aim of this study was to determine whether MR images of oral tongue tumor have the potential to predict cer...

Received December 21, 2006; accepted February 1, 2007. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to document the patterns of RLN spread by using MRI. METHODS The MR images of 294 patients with newly diagnosed NPC were reviewed retrospectively. Criteria for metastatic lymph nodes included: shortest axial diameter, nodal necrosis, extracapsular spread, and a contrast enhancing rim. RESULTS RLN involveme...

A patient with cervical lymph node tuberculosis developed a tubercular ulcer in the oesophagus eight weeks after starting treatment. This was probably due to a drug related hypersensitivity reaction in an adjacent mediastinal lymph node and subsided with continued treatment.

Received 2/20/2002; accepted 2/27/2002. For correspondence or reprints contact: Shih-Ya Ma, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, 5 Fu-Hsing Street, Kueishan, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Tel: (886)3-3281200 ext. 2624, Fax: (886)3-3281320, E-mail: [email protected] We reported a 72-year-old male patient of malignant parotid squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with right cer...

OBJECTIVE A comprehensive literature search for more recent studies pertaining to sentinel lymph node mapping in the surveillance of cervical cancer to assess if sentinel lymph node mapping has sensitivity and specificity for evaluation of the disease; assessment of posttreatment response and disease recurrence in cervical cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The literature review has been construct...

BACKGROUND Lateral cervical lymph node metastasis without central lymph node (CLN) metastasis is not infrequent in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC). This study was designed to investigate the frequency and pattern of skip metastasis in PTC. METHODS We reviewed 131 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with CLN dissection and selective lymph node dissection. Tumor location was classified in...

BACKGROUND Radical hysterectomy and complete pelvic lymphadenectomy is the standard treatment for early cervical carcinoma. But the rate of pelvic and paraaortic nodal metastasis is found to be low, pointing that most of the patients possibly undergo unnecessary nodal dissection. AIM To study the value of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in prediction of the pelvic lymph node status and to determi...

BACKGROUND Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the oral region often metastasizes to the cervical lymph nodes. To investigate whether the risk of cervical lymph node metastasis are predictable through lymphatic vessel density (LVD) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression, we assessed the relationship between LVD and clinicopathological parameters, and VEGF expression in SCC of the...