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Abstract
The aim of this study was to clarify the role of multidetector CT in evaluation of various cervical lymph node pathology.
This study was conducted on 30 patients complaining from neck swellings with a clinical diagnosis of enlarged cervical lymph nodes whom presented to El Minia University Hospital. They were nineteen males and eleven females. Their ages ranged from five years to eighty-one years
Multidetector CT examination of the neck was performed for all the thirty patients included in this study prior to any biopsy procedures. The MDCT examinations of the neck were interpreted for the CT criteria of the enlarged cervical lymph nodes as regarding to their size, shape, central necrosis, calcification, enhancement pattern, and extranodal extension.
CONCLUSIONS
MDCT is a valuable non invasive imaging modality for assessment of the enlarged cervical lymph nodes. It has a great role in characterization of cervical nodal enlargement which helps in differentiating benign from malignant cervical lymph nodes. It is also a valuable modality used for determining nodal levels and nodal staging in cancer patients which allowed appropriate diagnosis with subsequent proper surgical and treatment planning. So whenever possible, MDCT imaging should be performed prior to any nodal biopsy procedures.