Head & Neck

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Dody Novrial and has no comments yet.

The most common type of nasopharyngeal tumour is nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) – A carcinoma arising in the nasopharyngeal mucosa that shows light microscopic or ultrastructural evidence of squamous differentiation. It encompasses squamous cell carcinoma, non keratinizing carcinoma and basaloid squamous cell carcinoma. Adenocarcinoma and salivary gland type carcinoma are excluded.

Epidemiology
NPC shows a [...]

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