Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for diagnosis of an enlarged cervical lymph node in a patient with oropharyngeal cancer: a case report.

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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound for diagnosis of an enlarged cervical lymph node in a patient with oropharyngeal cancer: a case report.

Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol. 2017 Aug 24;:

Authors: Gvetadze SR, Xiong P, Li J, Lv M, Li J, Yang X, Ilkaev KD, Sun J

Abstract
In oral and oropharyngeal cancer, the presence of regional neck metastasis strongly influences treatment planning and survival prognosis. A number of imaging techniques can be utilized in the clinic for diagnosis and staging. A patient with oropharyngeal cancer was staged T2 cN1 after clinical examination, computed tomography, and (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography with computed tomography. Contrast-enhanced microbubble imaging was applied for diagnosis of a lymph node suspected of harboring a metastasis. The result of the microbubble procedure showed the suspicious node to be tumor negative, and this was later confirmed by frozen section and serial step section of the harvested node. Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography with introduction of intravenous microbubble contrast may be of benefit in staging oropharyngeal cancer in patients with enlarged neck lymph nodes.

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