What are the symptoms of NPC metastasis

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Some time ago, my uncle felt that his nose was very painful. Sometimes he would have nosebleed. He went to the hospital to have a physical examination, and then he realized that he had a serious nasopharyngeal carcinoma disease. He was worried that the cancer would metastasize. Now let me talk about the symptoms of metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

What are the symptoms of NPC metastasis

First, the surface of ulcer infection, the vast majority of patients will appear in the above parts of the symptoms, but according to the location and size of the tumor to determine the time and sequence of clinical symptoms: cancer is located at the top of the nasopharynx, the first occurrence of blood in the nose, blood can spit out from the mouth, accompanied by nasal congestion and other diseases; The tumor is located in the pharyngeal recess and other places. In the early stage, it often has tinnitus, ear closure, hearing loss and other symptoms. It is easy to be misdiagnosed as catarrhal exudative otitis media or suppurative otitis media. When the cancer infiltrates into the eye, it shows unilateral exophthalmos, diplopia, eye movement disorders and so on. When the cancer infiltrates into the medial pterygoid muscle, it shows difficulty in opening the mouth. When the hypoglossal nerve is involved, it appears tongue muscle movement disorders, and the tongue tends to the contralateral side.

Second: cranial nerve symptoms: nasopharyngeal carcinoma infiltrates and expands upward, which can involve cranial nerve and cause corresponding symptoms. Clinically, cranial nerves V and VI are the first to be involved. With tumor expansion, cranial nerves III, IV, IX and X are also damaged, while cranial nerves I and II are located in the anterior part of the skull, while cranial nerves VII and VIII are located in the petrous part of the temporal bone. The upper cranial nerves were involved, showing loss of function. Headache is often a sign of the tumor expanding into the brain. Headache is a persistent and fixed severe migraine, mostly located in the trigeminal sensory distribution area, the nature can be distending pain, muggy pain or tight pain.

Third: distant metastasis. The most common sites of NPC metastasis are bone, lung and liver. Bone metastases are common in pelvis, spine and limbs. Clinical observation showed that with the enlargement of cervical lymph nodes, the chance of distant metastasis increased significantly. The rate of distant metastasis was 4.8% "27%, and the rate of autopsy was as high as 76%. Bone metastases are mostly characterized by bone pain, lung metastases are characterized by dyspnea and hemoptysis, and liver metastases are characterized by liver pain and jaundice.

matters needing attention

Through the above, we learned about the symptoms of nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis. If we want to treat the disease reasonably and effectively, we should go to the regular hospital in time for treatment. It is very important to find out early and treat early. It is suggested that we should go to the hospital regularly for physical examination, so as to find out the abnormal body as soon as possible.