Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is one of the commonest head and neck malignancies in South East Asia. The tumor arises from epithelial layer nasopharynx, found most frequently at Fossa Rosenmuller (FOR). NPC can spread to its adjacent structures cause distant metastasis. However, occurrence dura metastasis uncommon despite being closely located. Consequently, a lesion may be misdiagnosed as men...

background:  radiochromic film is used for radiation dose measurement, xr-rv3 is used in fluoroscopy and ebt2 film in radiation therapy. the aim was to determine if the dosimetric properties of these two films are comparable in megavolt photon beams. materials and methods: comparison measurements included: calibration curves, heterogeneous phantom dose profiles, and nasopharynx dose distributio...

Background: The role of locoregional radiotherapy (LRT) the nasopharynx and neck in patients with metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (M-NPC) remains unclear. present meta-analysis aimed to compare efficacy chemotherapy (CT) plus LRT CT alone M-NPC patients.

report of a series of 16 cases of Hodgkin's disease involving Waldeyer's ring.' In our series there was involvement of the nasopharynx in eight cases but, unlike the Swedish report, our cases were all ones in which biopsy of the nasopharynx was indicated by symptoms related to this area. In two of our patients the disease was primary in the nasopharynx; the other six had more widespread disease...

The growing resistance to antimicrobial agents of all respiratory tract bacterial pathogens has made the management of sinusitis more difficult. The upper respiratory tract including the nasopharynx serves as the reservoir for pathogenic bacteria that can cause respiratory infections including sinusitis. During a viral respiratory infection, potential pathogens can relocate from the nasopharynx...

I meningococcal disease has a high case-fatality rate and an immediate risk of further cases among household contacts. Public health measures therefore include prompt identification of contacts for chemoprophylaxis (1). One question that commonly arises is whether salivary contact through sharing cups or glasses is an indication for prophylaxis, but the evidence base to inform an answer is weak...

The MR imaging appearances in three cases of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis are reported, and the findings are combined with three additional cases from a review of the literature. Two patterns of nasopharyngeal tuberculosis were identified. The first pattern is a discrete polypoid mass in the adenoids, and the second pattern is a more diffuse soft-tissue thickening of one or two of the walls of t...

cell neoplasm that is characterized by undifferentiated malignant epithelial cells together with an infiltrate of mature lymphocytes. Lymphoepithelial carcinoma most frequently occurs in the nasopharynx and it has occasionally been documented in diverse sites outside the nasopharynx such as the salivary glands, larynx, thymus, etc (1-3). Yet primary lymphoepithelial carcinoma has never been rep...

Moraxella bovoculi is a recently described bacterium that is associated with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) or "pinkeye" in cattle. In this study, closed circularized genomes were generated for seven M. bovoculi isolates: three that originated from the eyes of clinical IBK bovine cases and four from the deep nasopharynx of asymptomatic cattle. Isolates that originated from the eye...

Rhinosporidiosis is a chronic granulomatous infective disease commonly involving the nose and occasionally involving the skin and subcutaneous tissues. We hereby report a case of nasal and disseminated rhinosporidiosis who was operated thrice and had a recurrence of disease in the nasal cavity and the nasopharynx. Biopsy from the lesions in nasal cavity proved the recurrence of disease and he w...