Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Headache for half a year was originally due to nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Cheng headache for six months, after multi-treatment ineffective, and the neck lymph nodes clear, then go to the Armed Police Hospital, Otorhinolaryngology Centre - Head and Neck Surgery examination, medical admissions Wang Chenghua View lymph nodes, asking about her condition, the headache for half a year, probably by NPC result.

Yesterday, Mr Cheng to the center of the Armed Police Hospital, Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery to take EB virus and pathological examination report card report card report card on the pathology showed non-keratinizing undifferentiated carcinoma, Dr. Wang Chenghua said that NPC is a headache caused Cheng root causes.

Cheng, 41, six months ago suddenly felt a headache, once the pain to want to wall, at the local hospital for treatment of nervous headache, six months in the past, Mr Cheng that the treatment effect was not obvious, and neck lumps, the local doctors recommendation, to the Armed Police Hospital of Otorhinolaryngology receive check-ups.

Dr. Wang Chenghua introduction, nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the head and neck cancer incidence is high, the main symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma sucks the blood of aldicarb, tinnitus, headache, and headache when the initial symptoms of nasopharyngeal cancer, nearly 70% of the nasal pharyngeal cancer patients such as headaches, and is continuing. In addition, due to many reasons produce headache, few people think of nasopharyngeal cancer, both doctors and patients lack of vigilance, the primary symptom of this neglect, resulting in a high misdiagnosis rate of nasopharyngeal cancer, cautioned that patients with persistent headache must go to hospital.




Rhinitis, sinusitis, What are the characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma have a headache?

In ENT, nasal disease often does not have to tell patients suffering nose, but first of all tell a headache, or swelling, or pain, or men Tong, often caused by reflex and frontal, temporal, occipital or whole head pain. Original, nose with rich, dense distribution of nerve fibers, inflammatory disease often involving the nasal mucosa, skin and surrounding tissues, organs, and even penetrated to the brain to stimulate nerve endings, causing headaches. Clinically, the most common chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, headache in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Chronic rhinitis patients often seek medical chief complaint of headache, why do rhinitis can cause headaches? The original, and headache due to nasal congestion caused by poor ventilation. The main frontal headache to have to squeeze a sense, mostly dull pain or tenderness.

Chronic sinusitis, headache 53%, which is characterized by maxillary sinusitis persistent dull headache, in the temporal side, up and down the afternoon light weight, sleeping position as the natural drainage, relieve headaches; frontal headache in patients with the orbital and forehead, to noon, heavy headache, 3 to 4 pm and mitigate, the night may disappear; the former group of ethmoid, the headache in the forehead, brow and bridge of the nose or between the medial orbital; after the group of ethmoid The headache mainly in the head and back of the eye. Paranasal sinuses, the sinus area with tenderness and percussion pain, and headache, nasal congestion, diminished sense of smell.

High incidence of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Guangdong. Sometimes, the main headache pain for patients, 1 / 5 of patients can occur early, if older patients, accompanied by nasal obstruction, epistaxis, hearing loss, tinnitus, cervical lymph node swelling and other symptoms, should be wary of nasopharyngeal carcinoma possible. The headache characteristics: at the side of the frontal temporal, facial, occipital, there are intermittent initially, gradually increasing, continuing into the future, the nature of diverse, sometimes even play at night, more significant, serving painkillers often ineffective. Some patients with trigeminal neuralgia symptoms. If the cancer metastasis to the skull base, cranial nerve paralysis can occur.

Treatment should be cure, cure nasal disease, the headaches often disappear soon.

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