MRI-based Middle Neck Involvement in Stage N1–N2 Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Marker for Risk Stratification

作者：Guanjie Qin, Wei Jiang, W L Zhang, Wen‐Fei Li, Gaoyuan Wang, Yan‐Ping Mao, Shunxin Wang, Zhe Dong, Yu‐Pei Chen, Cheng Xu, Kai‐Bin Yang, Yuan Zhang, Ying-Qi Lu, Na Liu, Lei Chen, Rui Guo, Ling‐Long Tang, Ying Sun, Jibin Li, Lizhi Liu, Xiao-Jing Du, Jun Ma · 发表于：Radiology · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1148/radiol.243399 · 被引用次数：2 · 研究领域：Head and Neck Cancer Studies、Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging、MRI in cancer diagnosis

Lymph node metastases between the hyoid bone and cricoid cartilage were associated with worse 5-year metastasis-free survival in patients with N1 or N2 nasopharyngeal carcinoma than those without nodal metastases in the middle neck.