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Bone scintigraphy in primary tumors of the head and neck
Author(s) -
Front Dov,
Hardoff Ruth,
Robinson Eliezer
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197807)42:1<111::aid-cncr2820420119>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - medicine , skull , bone scintigraphy , scintigraphy , head and neck , radiography , radiology , context (archaeology) , nuclear medicine , primary bone , pathology , anatomy , surgery , paleontology , biology
Bones of the face and skull may be involved directly by adjacent primary tumors of the head and neck. Radiography, at present the standard method for detection of bone involvement in such tumors, is not sufficiently sensitive. Of 22 patients who showed bone involvement in scintigraphy, radiograpy in 15 was initially normal, in 6 the extent of the lesion was not completely shown and only in 3 was it as informative as scintigraphy. Bone scintigraphy should become a standard method for evaluation of the context of bone invasion by tumors of the head and neck.