Gauze padding: a simple technique to delineate small oral cavity tumors.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Small oral cavity tumors are an imaging challenge. Intimate apposition of vestibular oral mucosa to the alveolar mucosa makes tumor assessment difficult. In CT imaging, the "puffed cheek" method has been used to separate surfaces, though this is not feasible with long MR imaging sequences. We implemented placement of 2 × 2 inch (6.45 cm) gauze into the oral vestibule before the MR imaging examination, to determine whether this might improve tumor visualization.

Materials and methods

MR imaging examinations of all T1 oral malignant tumors treated at University of California, San Francisco, by the Oral and Maxillofacial Department were reviewed by 2 neuroradiologists. Nine patients were included in the final analysis. Six patients were imaged by using a

SUBMITTER: Dillon JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7965553 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature