Nasopharyngeal cancer is a rare type of head and neck cancer. It starts in the upper part of your throat, behind the nose. This area is called the nasopharynx. The nasopharynx is precariously placed ...

A 30-year-old woman produced a single mass of gray material from her nose during a particularly forceful sneeze several hours before presenting to our clinic. She asked that the material be submitted ...

The eustachian tube is a canal that connects the middle ear to the nasopharynx (the upper throat and the back of the nasal cavity). It controls the pressure within the middle ear, making it equal with ...

We have been studying irradiation of the nasopharynx in asthmatic children since shortly after Gay's original report 4 was published in 1946. A total of 41 children have been so treated. Results have ...

A 70-year-old woman with small-cell carcinoma of the nasopharynx, stage T2N0M0, went into complete remission after 6 courses of chemotherapy. Is there a need for follow-up radiotherapy (RT)? If yes, ...