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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma with secondaries at the porta hepatis presenting as obstructive jaundice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

S. Elango  and
C. R. Jayakumar
S. Elango*
Affiliation:
Lecturer in ENT.
C. R. Jayakumar
Affiliation:
Associate Professor in Radiology, University Hospital, Kota Bharu, Malaysia.
*
Dr S. Elango, Lecturer in ENT, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
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Abstract

Recent reports have dispelled the previously held concept that head and neck cancer rarely metastases beyond the cervical lymph nodes. Nasopharyngeal cancer has been reported to have a higher incidence of distant metastases compared to other head and neck cancers, the common sites being bone, lung and liver. A case of nasopharyngeal carcinoma presenting as obstructive jaundice because of secondaries at the porta hepatis is presented here.

Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 104 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 41 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1990

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