title: The current role of imaging in head and neck cancer: a clinician's perspective.
abstract: Imaging head and neck cancer is crucial for treatment decisions and follow-up of patients. The choice of the appropriate imaging modality for staging and re-staging head and neck cancer can be troublesome. This review highlights the important questions of imaging from a clinician's perspective. The recommendations focus on mucosal squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck since this is the most common one.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Microvascular Reconstruction, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Michael F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Schlumpf
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Microvascular Reconstruction, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haerle
mesh_terms: D004724:Endoscopy; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D018307:Neoplasms, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed