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Application progress of lymphography in oncology

  • Yang YU 1 ,
  • Jibin LIU 2 ,
  • Lixue YIN , 1
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  • 1. Institute of Ultrasound Medicine, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu 610072, China
  • 2. Division of Diagnostic Ultrasound, Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia PA19107, USA

Received date: 16 Sep 2008

Accepted date: 30 Oct 2008

Published date: 05 Mar 2009

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Lymphography is often used for the diagnosis of lymphatic metastasis in oncology. Determination of lymphatic metastasis is extremely important for accurate cancer staging, which may directly guide the clinical therapeutic scheme. In recent years, the technology of lymphography has developed rapidly on the basis of traditional lymphography, with the appearance of computed tomography (CT) lymphography, nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) lymphography, contrast-enhanced lymphosonography, and so on; the diagnostic accuracy has also been improved. The imaging principles and methods of these various technologies of lymphography are reviewed in this paper, and their applications and significance in oncology are also discussed in detail.

Cite this article

Yang YU , Jibin LIU , Lixue YIN . Application progress of lymphography in oncology[J]. Frontiers of Medicine, 2009 , 3(1) : 13 -19 . DOI: 10.1007/s11684-009-0016-7

Acknowledgements

The study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 30770564).
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