Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma of the Larynx: CT and MR Imaging Findings
Ann D. Kinga,
Edmund H.Y. Yuena,
Kenny I.K. Leib,
Anil T. Ahujaa and
Andrew van Hasseltc
a Departments of Diagnostic Radiology and Organ Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
b Department of Clinical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
c Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China

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FIG 1. Coronal T1-weighted (494/15) contrast-enhanced MR image obtained in a 50-year-old female patient shows a submucosal laryngeal NHL centered in the supraglottis (arrows)
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FIG 2. Coronal T2-weighted (2500/100) image obtained in a 36-year-old female patient shows a laryngeal NHL centered in the supraglottis (arrow)
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FIG 3. Axial T1-weighted (425/15) contrast-enhanced MR image obtained in a 50-year-old female patient shows laryngeal NHL in the supraglottis involving both aryepiglottic folds (arrowheads), left paraglottic space (curved arrow), and extension into the left pyriform fossa (straight arrow)
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FIG 4. Axial T1-weighted (543/12) contrast-enhanced MR image obtained in a 40-year-old male patient shows laryngeal NHL with symmetrical involvement of the false vocal cords.
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FIG 5. Axial CT scan obtained in a 50-year-old female patient shows laryngeal NHL invading the left thyroid lamina (arrow)
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FIG 6. Axial T1-weighted (543/12) contrast-enhanced MR image obtained in a 40-year-old male patient shows lymphomatous involvement of the posterior hypopharyngeal wall (arrows)
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FIG 7. Axial T2-weighted (2200/100) fat-suppression MR images obtained in a 40-year-old male patient shows extension of the laryngeal lymphoma into the tongue base (A, arrows) and the nasopharynx (B, arrows)
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FIG 8. Coronal T1-weighted (425/13) image obtained in a 40-year-old male patient shows cervical lymphadenopathy with extracapsular tumor spread (arrows)
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