MRI prognostic factors of tongue cancer: potential predictors of cervical lymph nodes metastases

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of three MR imaging parameters, which are tumour thickness, para-lingual distance and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value for prediction of cervical lymph nodes metastasis in cancer tongue patients.

Keywords

• tongue cancer
• tumour thickness
• para-lingual distance
• apparent diffusion coefficient
• cervical lymph nodes metastases