Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review

Cervical lymph node metastasis is common in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), but occipital lymph node metastasis in NPC patients has not yet been reported. In this case report, we describe an NPC patient with occipital lymph node metastasis. The clinical presentation, diagnostic procedu...

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Autores principales: Yang, Jing, Xia, Wei-Xiong, Xiang, Yan-Qun, Lv, Xing, Ke, Liang-Ru, Yu, Ya-Hui, Guo, Xiang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40880-015-0074-y
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author Yang, Jing
Xia, Wei-Xiong
Xiang, Yan-Qun
Lv, Xing
Ke, Liang-Ru
Yu, Ya-Hui
Guo, Xiang
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Xia, Wei-Xiong
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description Cervical lymph node metastasis is common in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), but occipital lymph node metastasis in NPC patients has not yet been reported. In this case report, we describe an NPC patient with occipital lymph node metastasis. The clinical presentation, diagnostic procedure, treatment, and outcome of this case were presented, with a review of the related literature.
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spelling pubmed-47006262016-01-08 Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review Yang, Jing Xia, Wei-Xiong Xiang, Yan-Qun Lv, Xing Ke, Liang-Ru Yu, Ya-Hui Guo, Xiang Chin J Cancer Case Report Cervical lymph node metastasis is common in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), but occipital lymph node metastasis in NPC patients has not yet been reported. In this case report, we describe an NPC patient with occipital lymph node metastasis. The clinical presentation, diagnostic procedure, treatment, and outcome of this case were presented, with a review of the related literature. BioMed Central 2016-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4700626/ /pubmed/26728009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40880-015-0074-y Text en © Yang et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Yang, Jing
Xia, Wei-Xiong
Xiang, Yan-Qun
Lv, Xing
Ke, Liang-Ru
Yu, Ya-Hui
Guo, Xiang
Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review
title Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review
title_full Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review
title_fullStr Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review
title_short Occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review
title_sort occipital lymph node metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a special case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26728009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40880-015-0074-y
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