Central nervous system metastases from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) are uncommon. The patient presented was diagnosed with aggressive advanced NPC resistant to treatment and complicated by a solitary brain metastasis. A PubMed database search was conducted to review the existing literature regarding brain metastases of NPC, using the search terms "nasopharyngeal neoplasia," "nasopharyngeal ca...

AIMS To assess the presence of carcinoma in situ (CIS) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and to see if the number of biopsy sites facilitates detection of CIS. METHODS Formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded biopsy specimens (n = 285) from 187 patients with NPC in 1987 were studied for the presence of CIS as well as for the histological assessment of the subtype of CIS. RESULTS ...

Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a benign, vascular tumor which typically presents in adolescent males. Although surgical resection is usually recommended for the management of this tumor, external beam radiation therapy has also been advocated in the literature. We report three cases of large juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibromas with extensive intracranial extension primarily managed w...

We present the case of a 47-year-old man with a history of Epstein-Barr-virus-positive nasopharyngeal carcino- ma who developed a metastasis to the palatine tonsil. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of an intratonsillar metastasis of a nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The aim of this report is to emphasize the importance of vigilant surveillance in patients with nasopharyng...