Table 5.
Relationship between the enhanced morphology of the metastatic lymph nodes detected on multi-detector computed tomography and the intranodal pathological metastatic patterns in the prospective study
| Small nodular type | Peripheral type | Large nodular type | Diffuse type | |
| Weak enhancement | 4 | 7 | 3 | 8 |
| Obvious enhancement | 3 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| Ring enhancement | 2 | 4 | 4 | |
| Partial enhancement | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 |