Bone Metastases in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Ni Ketut Susilawati (Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Praya General Hospital, Central Lombok, Indonesia)
Hamsu Kadriyan (Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Mataram University/West Nusa Tenggara General Hospital, Indonesia)

International Journal of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Vol. 2 No. 03 (2020): International Journal of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

Introduction: The incidence of bone metastases is as much as 20% of all distant metastases in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). However, the publication regarding bone metastasis is limited. Case Report: Reported a 58-year-old male patient with a mass on the right upper jugular neck lymph node. According to history taking, physical examination, radiology, and histopathology work up, concluded that the patients were established as nasopharyngeal cancer with the thoraco-lumbal bone metastasis. The physician was starting the chemotherapy; however, due to the advanced stage, this patient was death after the second chemotherapy. Conclusion: In this article presented a nasopharyngeal carcinoma case with bone metastases that have been diagnosed with stage IV B nasopharyngeal carcinoma. This article also described the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of bone metastases in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.