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Fig. 8 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 8

From: Imaging side effects and complications of chemotherapy and radiation therapy: a pictorial review from head to toe

Fig. 8

Atrophy of the right parotid gland in a 73-year-old man 3 years after ChT/RT for a carcinoma of the right inferior alveolar crest. MR images show a right parotid gland smaller than the contralateral, with high signal on axial T2-weighted (a), high signal on T1-weighted (b), and low signal on post-contrast 3D GRE fat-sat T1-weighted (c) images, due to extensive fatty infiltration of the parenchyma. P, parotid gland; M, mandible; MM, masseter muscle; MPM, medial pterygoid muscle; DM, digastric muscle; internal carotid artery (arrow)

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