Research advances on nasopharyngeal carcinoma invaded with paranasal sinus / 实用肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma ( NPC) invaded with paranasal sinus as death is associated with disease and independent prognostic factors for local recurrence .Its symptoms are various and atyp-ical,and often causes misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis .Local recurrence and distant metastasis are the main cause of treatment fails .Currently , there are few literature about NPC intruding paranasal sinus .Its occurrence rate,clinical manifestation,imageological change,intruding pathways,diagnosis,treatment and prognosis are sum-marized in this paper .