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- not comparableanatomyBeyond the pharynx
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Figure 3 Postsurgical MRI Gadolinium contrast-enhanced T2-weighted coronal and axial MRI images demonstrate a residual T2 hypointense, enhancing soft tissue mass involving the anterior left maxillary sinus, premaxillary soft tissues, and extending superiorly into the extraconal soft tissues of the left orbit (see arrows). Figure 4 Restaging FDG-PET/CT PET-CT revealing FDG-avid lesions in the anteromedial left maxillary sinus surgical bed, as well as FDG-avid right adenoid tonsillar lesion, squamous temporal bone involvement, and left parapharyngeal nodes (see arrows).
2015, Alexander Muacevic et al., “Sinonasal NUT-Midline Carcinoma – A Multimodality Approach to Diagnosis, Staging and Post-Surgical Restaging”, in Cureus, volume 7, →DOI
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