Nasopharyngeal carcinoma with secondaries at the porta hepatis presenting as obstructive jaundice |
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Authors: | S Elango C R Jayakumar |
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Institution: | School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. |
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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. |
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