Unusual presentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with rectal metastasis

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare tumour that mainly metastasizes in lymph nodes, bones, lungs and liver. Colorectal metastases of NPC are extremely rare phenomenon and associated with a poor prognosis. We reported here a case of NPC with rectal metastasis, we discussed the treatment modaliti...

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Autores principales: Vogel, Malvine, Kourie, Hampig Raphael, Piccart, Martine, Lalami, Yassine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28560236
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v5.i5.183
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author Vogel, Malvine
Kourie, Hampig Raphael
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description Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare tumour that mainly metastasizes in lymph nodes, bones, lungs and liver. Colorectal metastases of NPC are extremely rare phenomenon and associated with a poor prognosis. We reported here a case of NPC with rectal metastasis, we discussed the treatment modalities and the prognosis after reviewing the similar cases described in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-54343182017-05-30 Unusual presentation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma with rectal metastasis Vogel, Malvine Kourie, Hampig Raphael Piccart, Martine Lalami, Yassine World J Clin Cases Case Report Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a rare tumour that mainly metastasizes in lymph nodes, bones, lungs and liver. Colorectal metastases of NPC are extremely rare phenomenon and associated with a poor prognosis. We reported here a case of NPC with rectal metastasis, we discussed the treatment modalities and the prognosis after reviewing the similar cases described in the literature. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017-05-16 2017-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5434318/ /pubmed/28560236 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v5.i5.183 Text en ©The Author(s) 2017. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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