{"title":"[Imaging diagnosis of tumor in parapharyngeal space].","authors":"Dawei Sun, Banghua Liu, Weijia Kong, Chengzhang Yang, Guangping Wang, Shengbin Bi","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the diagnostic value of CT and MRI in tumors of parapharyngeal space (PPS).</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The data of one hundred and thirty-eight patients with PPS tumor treated in our department during the period from January, 1988 to January, 2005 were collected and reviewed. Eighty-three men and 55 women were enrolled, not including patients with metastasis tumors in PPS or nasopharyngeal carcinomas invading PPS. The age varies from 7 to 73 yrs(average 44.7 yrs). Among the patients, 12 were operated for the second time because of recurrence. All the patients were examined by CT or/and MRI.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>CT and MRI could provide the position, size, confine of the tumor and its relationship with cervical blood vessels well, which were important to operation schemes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>CT and MRI before operation are valuable to the treatment of PPS tumors.</p>","PeriodicalId":79680,"journal":{"name":"Lin chuang er bi yan hou ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology","volume":"20 19","pages":"885-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Lin chuang er bi yan hou ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Objective: To investigate the diagnostic value of CT and MRI in tumors of parapharyngeal space (PPS).
Method: The data of one hundred and thirty-eight patients with PPS tumor treated in our department during the period from January, 1988 to January, 2005 were collected and reviewed. Eighty-three men and 55 women were enrolled, not including patients with metastasis tumors in PPS or nasopharyngeal carcinomas invading PPS. The age varies from 7 to 73 yrs(average 44.7 yrs). Among the patients, 12 were operated for the second time because of recurrence. All the patients were examined by CT or/and MRI.
Result: CT and MRI could provide the position, size, confine of the tumor and its relationship with cervical blood vessels well, which were important to operation schemes.
Conclusion: CT and MRI before operation are valuable to the treatment of PPS tumors.