Easily detected signs of perineural tumour spread in head and neck cancer

ABSTRACT: Perineural tumour spread (PNTS) in head and neck oncology is most often caused by squamous cell carcinoma. The most frequently affected nerves are the trigeminal and facial nerves. Up to 40% of patients with PNTS may be asymptomatic. Therefore, the index of suspicion should be high when ev...

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Autores principales: Dankbaar, Jan Willem, Pameijer, Frank A., Hendrikse, Jeroen, Schmalfuss, Ilona M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Pictorial Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6269343/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30446949
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13244-018-0672-8
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author Dankbaar, Jan Willem
Pameijer, Frank A.
Hendrikse, Jeroen
Schmalfuss, Ilona M.
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description ABSTRACT: Perineural tumour spread (PNTS) in head and neck oncology is most often caused by squamous cell carcinoma. The most frequently affected nerves are the trigeminal and facial nerves. Up to 40% of patients with PNTS may be asymptomatic. Therefore, the index of suspicion should be high when evaluating imaging studies of patients with head and neck cancer. This review describes a “quick search checklist” of easily detected imaging signs of PNTS. TEACHING POINTS: • A distinctive feature of head and neck tumours is growth along nerves. • Perineural tumour spread is most often caused by squamous cell carcinoma. • There are several key findings for the detection of perineural tumour spread.
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spelling pubmed-62693432018-12-11 Easily detected signs of perineural tumour spread in head and neck cancer Dankbaar, Jan Willem Pameijer, Frank A. Hendrikse, Jeroen Schmalfuss, Ilona M. Insights Imaging Pictorial Review ABSTRACT: Perineural tumour spread (PNTS) in head and neck oncology is most often caused by squamous cell carcinoma. The most frequently affected nerves are the trigeminal and facial nerves. Up to 40% of patients with PNTS may be asymptomatic. Therefore, the index of suspicion should be high when evaluating imaging studies of patients with head and neck cancer. This review describes a “quick search checklist” of easily detected imaging signs of PNTS. TEACHING POINTS: • A distinctive feature of head and neck tumours is growth along nerves. • Perineural tumour spread is most often caused by squamous cell carcinoma. • There are several key findings for the detection of perineural tumour spread. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6269343/ /pubmed/30446949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13244-018-0672-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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