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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology

Table of Contents - 2006 - Volume 120, Issue 04  


Clinical Record

Synchronous bilateral tonsillar carcinoma: role of fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography scanning in detecting occult primary tumours in metastatic nodal disease of the head and neck

T Price a1c1 and J Pickles a1
a1 Department of ENT, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK

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Abstract

We present the second case of primary synchronous bilateral tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma reported in the English literature and evaluate the role of fluoro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography scanning in the search for the occult primary tumour in a patient presenting with metastatic nodal disease in the head and neck.

(Published Online February 15 2006)
(Accepted September 29 2005)


Key Words: Tonsillar Neoplasms; Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Positron Emission Tomography; Head and Neck; Neoplasms, Occult Primary.

Correspondence:
c1 Address for correspondence: Mr Tim Price, 2 Grasmere Close, Loughton, Essex, IG10 1SL, UK. E-mail: timothy.price@nhs.net

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