The poor prognosis for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma is principally due to its advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. The symptoms and clinical findings at presentation of 56 patients with confirmed nasopharyngeal carcinoma is described and analysed. Recognising the common modes of presentation is essential to diagnose the disease at an early stage.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to present the postoperative local tumor control and survival with regard to the different resection margin statuses during salvage nasopharyngectomy. METHODS We conducted a whole-organ study of nasopharyngectomy specimens. RESULTS Between 2005 and 2010, 126 patients underwent maxillary swing nasopharyngectomy. The T classification of the recurrent t...

BACKGROUND Capecitabine has been commonly used in recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma. However, radiation recall after capecitabine for nasopharyngeal carcinoma has not been reported. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 64-year-old Chinese woman with locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma previously treated with induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemor...

AIM To test the hypothesis that lethal synergy occurs between toxin preparations of nasopharyngeal staphylococci and enterobacteria from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) victims and matched healthy infants. METHODS SIDS and matched healthy babies were studied if both staphylococcal and enterobacterial strains were isolated from the nasopharynx. The lethality of toxin preparations from each...