Appraisal of Radiologic Size Criteria for Malignant Lymph Nodes in Parotid Region in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Implication for Parotid‐Sparing <scp>IMRT</scp>
Current radiologic size criteria of ≥ 10 mm for positive PLN should be reduced to ≥ 8 mm. Node-RADS score of 4-5, which includes adverse morphological nodal features, could improve the specificity of identifying malignant PLNs in the 6-8 mm subset.
Authors
- Qiaojuan Guo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4091-8014)
- Xinlan Chen
- Zhiwei Yan
- Ziyi Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6207-381X)
- Shaojun Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7164-9761)
- Lisha Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8980-5275)
- Xiaojing Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9337-907X)
- Jianji Pan
- Hanchuan Xu
- Yahan Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2889-8222)
- Caizhu Pan
- Youping Xiao
- Jingfeng Zong
- Shao Hui Huang
Institutions
- Fujian Medical University (CN)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (CA)
- Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Head & Neck
- Published
- 2025-12-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hed.70096
- Primary Topic
- Salivary Gland Tumors Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00