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Predicting the Local Outcome of Irradiated Laryngeal Cancer: Value of Pretreatment Imaging

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Imaging of the Larynx

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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Concerns have been expressed about the weakness of the T classification for laryngeal cancer, and for cancers at other head and neck sites, as the cure rates reported in the literature vary and prognosis is not sufficiently related to the T values (BAILEY 1991; HARRISON 1988; PICCIRILLO 1995). Modern radiologic imaging methods assist in pretreatment planning by defining the extension of infiltrating head and neck tumors better, and, moreover, quantitative evaluation of tumor volume is feasible. In this chapter the use of pretherapeutic imaging in coming to a more refined estimation of the local outcome of laryngeal cancer after radiation treatment is discussed.

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  1. Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Robert Hermans Md, PhD (Professor)

  2. Department of Radiology, Free University Hospital Amsterdam, P.O. 7057, 1007, MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jonas A. Castelijns MD, PhD (Professor)

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Hermans, R., Castelijns, J.A. (2003). Predicting the Local Outcome of Irradiated Laryngeal Cancer: Value of Pretreatment Imaging. In: Hermans, R. (eds) Imaging of the Larynx. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59369-7_7

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