2016_Head & Neck COURSE BOOK
IDENTIFICATION OF THE PRIMARY TUMOR
NARROW BAND IMAGING
PATTERN NBI + BASE OF THE TONGUE
CLINICAL PRESENTATION RIGHT N1 LEV II-III
SAKAI ET AL REPORTED A DETECTION RATE OF TX IMPROVED FROM 40% BY WL ENDOSCOPY IN A CONVENTIONAL STRAIGHT HEAD POSITION TO 71% BY NBI WITH ADJUNCTIVE MANOEUVRES (HEAD TORSION, KILLIAN POSITION AND VALSALVA) HAYASHI ET AL. WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY 16 PRIMARY CANCERS (10 IN THE HYPOPHARYNX AND 6 IN THE OROPHARYNX) BY NBI ALONE IN 46 PATIENTS WITH TX PREVIOUSLY EVALUATED BY CT, MRI, PET, LARYNGOSCOPY, AND GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY
Hayashi T et al., Jpn J Clin Oncol 2010 Sakai A et al., Laryngoscope 2010
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