title: Squamous cell carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract: a review.
abstract: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCCa) is the most common head and neck malignancy. The radiologist has several roles in the long-term management of patients with SCCa, the first of which is determining the extent of local disease spread and the presence of nodal metastases. The most widely used tumor staging system is the American Joint Committee on Cancer tumor node metastasis system, which creates the initial staging of SCCa patients. In this review the relevant reportable findings of pharyngeal SCCa are explored, and each subsite of the pharynx and larynx is addressed, from the nasopharynx to the hypopharynx.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0628, Room L358, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Landry
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0628, Room L358, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0628, USA. Electronic address: christine.glastonbury@ucsf.edu.
authors.forename: Christine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Glastonbury
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D005931:Glottis; D006801:Humans; D007012:Hypopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D007822:Laryngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D010610:Pharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: Human papilloma virus; Pharynx; Squamous cell carcinoma; Staging