British Journal of Radiology (2004) 77, 111-115
© 2004 British Institute of Radiology
doi: 10.1259/bjr/53555208
MRI of neck nodes in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the head and neck
A D King, FRCR1,
K I Lei, MRCP2 and
A T Ahuja, FRCR1
1 Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging and 2 Department of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

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Figure 1. Nodal necrosis (arrows) shown on (a) axial T1 weighted image post contrast and (b) axial T2 weighted image with fat suppression.
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Figure 2. Axial T1 weighted image post contrast of (a) matted nodes with extracapsular neoplastic spread (arrows) and (b) "sheets" of lymphomatous nodes where the underlying nodal structures is almost completely destroyed (arrows).
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