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RewiewsThe opportunities of ultrasonic diagnostics of head and neck organs
A. I. Gafurova (1)
(1) Clinical Research Centre of Otorhinolaryngology, Federal Medico-Biological Agency of Russia, Moscow, 123182, Russia
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2018-6-91-97
ABSTRACT
In otorhinolaryngology, ultrasonic diagnostics is used as an auxiliary examination method. Ultrasonography is widely used in medical practice for identification and differentiation of neck, larynx, and laryngopharynx tumors, for detection of lymph node metastasis, for example, in patients with malignant neoplasms of the larynx and laryngopharynx. In a metastatic lymph node, ultrasound is used for ultrasound-guided fine-needle biopsy. Ultrasound makes it possible to identify an organ topography, to differentiate malignancies from benign tumors, and to perform dynamic follow-up.
Head and neck malignancies account for 20–30% of all oncological diseases. The laryngeal cancer accounts for, on average, 65–70% of the upper respiratory tract tumors. In patients with head and neck malignancies, ultrasonography provides diagnostics of laryngeal and pharyngeal tumors. Ultrasound is a highly informative method of detection of head and neck tumors.
Publication date:
06.12.2018
Keywords:
ultrasonography, cancer, larynx. For citation:
Gafurova A. I. The opportunities of ultrasonic diagnostics of head and neck organs. Rossiiskaya otorinolaringologiya. 2018;6:91–97. https://doi.org/10.18692/1810-4800-2018-6-91-97