How reliable is ultrasonography with respect to MRI in detecting salivary glands malignancies?

07 August 2013 0 1K Report

In more than a hundred personal cases ultrasonography has proved to be more specific than MRI in predicting salivary glands malignancies, as further confirmed by definitive histology.

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