[Diagnostic aspects of pharyngeal tumors]

Vestn Rentgenol Radiol. 1999 Mar-Apr:(2):18-21.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

In the work there are summarized the results of the examination of the 28 patients suffering with the pharynx tumors (angiophybroma of the pharynx, tumor of rhinopharynx with spreading to the cells of ethmoidal labyrinth and maxillary sinus, tumor of the pharynx spreading upon the rhinopharynx and intracranially) aged from 14 till 62. There are described the methods of roentgenologic investigation, computed and magnetic resonance tomography. There are shown the possibilities of different diagnostic methods in pharynx tumors, in estimation of the localization specification, prevalence, structure, degree of invasion into the neoplasms gathering round the cells, as well as the definition of the bony destruction.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Angiofibroma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Angiofibroma / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Invasiveness
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Pharyngeal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pharyngeal Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed