NPC common clinical symptoms

Thursday, April 3, 2008 · Posted in

NPC location concealment, with eyes, ears, nose and throat, bone and skull base neurosurgery, and other vital organs adjacent, is easily in the mucosa under the direct invasion to adjacent organs or lymph node metastasis in the biological behavior, symptoms change or not obvious, and often the patient or the physician negligence. Many patients often first medicine, surgery, neurology, ophthalmology treatment, several twists and turns before the ENT or radiotherapy Branch diagnosis and treatment. As early nasopharyngeal carcinoma tumor small, with the mucosal surface or submucosal invasion, tumors involving the eustachian tube openings, it can have no symptoms. Early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma retraction of the blood T to the most, followed by hearing loss, tinnitus, ear, such as occlusion.
NPC common symptoms are: (1) cervical lymphadenopathy: nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients with cervical lymph node enlargement as the first symptom of 36.5%, when the treatment of cervical lymph node metastasis of 70.6%.
(2) withdrawal of blood T or epistaxis: retraction of the blood T usually get up in the morning after I Hengchu blood from the nose, with little blood, patients often neglect, or as a medicine to hemoptysis Pulmonary Branch or attendance. As nasopharyngeal cavity relatively brittle tumor angiogenesis, tumor appearance mucosa often not covered, it is easy to blood T symptoms. Retraction of the blood T is one of the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, patients and physicians should arouse attention.
(3) tinnitus, hearing loss, ear occlusion flu: NPC in nasopharyngeal lateral, or side Waterloo eustachian tube openings upper lip, tumor compression of the eustachian tube can occur unilateral tinnitus or hearing loss, but also He card in otitis media. Unilateral tinnitus or hearing loss, ear occlusion flu is one of the early symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
(4) headache: headache often side of migraine in forehead, temporal or occipital. Light, headache without treatment, weight will be required to serve analgesics, and even injecting painkillers. There are many reasons for headaches, but brain damage or destruction of the skull base is often a headache one of the reasons. Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma headache may be the first one trigeminal nerve endings in the epidural nerve stimulation reflex caused by the Department.
(5) nasal: nasopharyngeal carcinoma occur in the anterior wall of the nasopharynx top, it is easy to rear of the nasal cavity, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma CT examination of the nasal cavity of 42.9%. Treatment of the nasal symptoms 48.6%.
(6)-MA: It refers to facial skin numbness, pain and clinical examination for tactile diminish or disappear. Chang entered the cavernous sinus tumor caused a trigeminal nerve section or two impaired tumor invasion foramen ovale, before the styloid process, the trigeminal nerve from the first three regular front of the ear, temporal, cheek, lower lip and chin skin and numbness or paresthesia.
(7) diplopia: As the tumor invasion outreach nerve, often caused outside of a double as video. Pulley nerve involvement, often caused inward strabismus, diplopia. Often associated with trigeminal nerve damage.
(8) tongue muscle atrophy and Shengua deviation: a direct violation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis to lymph nodes or poststyloid or hypoglossal canal, the hypoglossal nerve involvement, the disease caused Shengua preferred side, tongue side with disease atrophy. If bilateral hypoglossal nerve damage caused Shen She will be difficult. Shengua after the deflection rate of Ma, diplopia.
(9) ptosis, eyeball fixed: oculomotor nerve damage. Eyesight diminish or disappear with the orbital optic nerve damage or violations of the cone. Qinge and swallowing difficulties and vagus nerve, the glossopharyngeal nerve damage.
(10) menopause: As NPC first symptom very rare, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma invading the sphenoid sinus and pituitary.

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