Open AccessAccuracy of MRI in Prediction of Tumour Thickness and Nodal Stage in Oral Tongue and Gingivobuccal Cancer With Clinical Correlation and Staging
Author(s) -
Varun Goel,
P. S. Parihar,
Akhilesh Parihar,
Ashok K. Goel,
Kapil Waghwani,
Richa Gupta,
Umesh Bhutekar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/17411.7905
Subject(s) - tongue , medicine , effective diffusion coefficient , cervical lymph nodes , histopathology , diffusion mri , stage (stratigraphy) , pathology , metastasis , tongue neoplasm , lymph , radiology , cancer , magnetic resonance imaging , biology , paleontology
Squamous cell carcinoma of lower gingivo-buccal complex and tongue are the most common cancer in the Indian sub-continent. The value of imaging in the staging of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) is in judging operability, assessment of the prognostic characteristics and dimensions of the primary tumour, depth of tumour invasion, the presence of cervical metastasis and detection of bone infiltration.