BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE ENB is a rare malignant neoplasm that affects the anterior skull base. Disease stage is a significant predictor of survival, in particular the presence or absence of lymph node metastases. Multiple studies have identified the cervical lymph nodes as the most frequent site of spread; however, no studies have attempted to characterize the radiographic appearance of metastat...

We performed a logistic regression analysis to evaluate the predictive value of ultrasonongraphy-detectable features of cervical lymph nodes in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The goal of this analysis was to determine whether certain ultrasound features were useful for accurate differential diagnosis of cervical lymph nodes metastasis with underlying nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In this i...

Metastatic cervical lymphadenopathy is a common problem in head and neck oncology. The appropriate management of the cervical lymph nodes requires a good understanding of the incidence, patterns, and prognostic implications of nodal metastasis. This paper correlates the anatomical and the simplified level classification systems of cervical lymph nodes, examines the clinical significance of noda...

Background: Epstein-Bar virus (EBV) causes infectious mononucleosis in more than 90% of children. Rarely, mononucleosis may lead to malignancy. The aim the current study was to introduce a child with mononucleosis and persistent adenopathy. Case report: A 4-year-old male patient presented with complaints of fever, shortness of breath and sore throat. He was treated with antibiotics and prednis...

Introduction: In the current study we evaluated the incremental value of lateral pelvic lymphoscintigraphy imaging of endometrial or cervical cancer patients who underwent sentinel node mapping. Methods: Operable endometrial and cervical cancer patients without clinical or paraclinical evidence of lymph node involvement were included in the study. The day before surgery the patients were sent ...

The lack of draining lymphatic vessels in the central nervous system (CNS) contributes to the so-called "CNS immune privilege." However, despite such a unique anatomic feature, dendritic cells (DCs) are able to migrate from the CNS to cervical lymph nodes through a yet unknown pathway. In this report, labeled bone marrow-derived myeloid DCs were injected stereotaxically into the cerebrospinal f...

introduction:most metastatic lymph nodes from head and neck malignancy are solid. cystic nodes are found in 33% - 61% of carcinomas arise from waldeyer’s ring, of which only 1.8% - 8% originate are from the nasopharynx. some cystic cervical metastases were initially presumed to be branchial cleft cyst. this case report aims to highlight the unusual presentation of cystic cervical metastasis sec...

Radiation is an important modality for cervical and upper-thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Delineating the lymph node clinical target volume (CTVn) for EC remains a challenging task. The present paper retrospectively analyzes the distribution of affected lymph nodes of cervical and upper thoracic ESCC on CT images to provide a reference for determination of CTVn. The cases of...