Thursday 23 October 2014

RADIOLOGY MCQ --AIPGMEE AND FRCR--intrathoracic lymph nodes

182.All are true regarding intrathoracic lymph nodes metastases except

a.skip metastases to mediastinal nodes in the absence of hilar nodes

 is seen in 53% of cases


b.mediastinal  nodes with a short axis diameter more than than 10 

mm should usually be considered enlarged.

c.Fused PET–CT imaging  is more accurate than PET or CT alone 

in staging patients with non-small cell lung cancer .

d. Mediastinoscopy and mediastinotomy remain the most widely 

employed techniques for mediastinal lymph node sampling


e. the MRI signal within nodes is not a useful predictor of 

involvement of nodes

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