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Synchronous bilateral tonsillar carcinoma: role of fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography scanning in detecting occult primary tumours in metastatic nodal disease of the head and neck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2006

T Price
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK
J Pickles
Affiliation:
Department of ENT, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK

Abstract

We present the second case of primary synchronous bilateral tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma reported in the English literature and evaluate the role of fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography scanning in the search for the occult primary tumour in a patient presenting with metastatic nodal disease in the head and neck.

Type
Clinical Record
Copyright
2006 JLO (1984) Limited

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