The Treatment of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Relative to Histopathology

Abstract

A series of our twenty-four nasopharyngeal carcinoma cases is reviewed and also we report one special case of them who was first diagnosed as having undifferentiated carcinoma of nasopharynx later he had seminoma, and then malignant lymphoma in the upper gum. This case was considered to be malignant lymphoma from the initial PAP method. The lymphoepithelioma was distinguished from the undifferentiated carcinoma. Four of twenty-four cases were lymphoepithelioma, these tumors grew slowly, and were controlled by irradiation. There were no clinical differences between the non-keratinizing carcinoma and undifferentiated carcinoma. The count of white blood cells was increased in advanced cases, and these patients tended to have disseminated intravascular coagulation.