Why do I say that tinnitus can not be ignored?

Thursday, April 3, 2008 · Posted in

Tinnitus is a common clinical symptoms, there are a variety of reasons, but for some tumors, it is a tinnitus can not be ignored early symptoms of patients seeking treatment also led to one of the main reasons. According to a survey of information: analysis of 800 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in 50 patients with brain tumors and the clinical manifestation, found symptoms of tinnitus 62%. Tinnitus is a ringing in the ears of patients self-feeling, larger differences in the performance of each, such as Chan Ming, worms or watches called sound, like wind, the roar of the machinery, different degrees of seriousness, these symptoms often distracted by the patients, thus affecting life.
Why NPC will have tinnitus? This is due to nasopharyngeal tumors with infection, edema, plug in the wall of the nasopharynx eustachian tube opening. For the performance side of tinnitus, and gradually worsened, and hearing loss. Therefore, when there is the continuity of unknown causes tinnitus, should be promptly to the hospital ENT examination, diagnosis, rule out the tumor, timely treatment.
NPC is the main means of radiotherapy treatment. Most of the patients after radiotherapy, in a fairly long period of time, there is a phenomenon of tinnitus and hearing loss. Produced the performance of the reasons for this is a large number in the nasopharynx after radiotherapy, in the eustachian tube surrounding tissue fibrosis, temporarily unable to dominate the eustachian tube opening and closing the mouth of the normal. On the other hand, nasopharyngeal cancer after radiotherapy, the nasopharynx showed chronic inflammation change, I secretions blocked eustachian tube may occur tinnitus. With lesion tissue repair, will gradually disappear from tinnitus.

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