Romanian Journal of Oral Rehabilitation (Apr 2016)

GIANT NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA – A CASE REPORT DYNAMIC ANATOMICAL MODELS IN SKULL BASE AND INTRACRANIAL SPACE INVASION

  • Dana Turliuc,
  • Daniela Trandafir,
  • Andrei Cucu,
  • Nicolae Dobrin,
  • Gabriela Dumitrescu,
  • Anca Sava,
  • Ana-Maria Dumitrescu,
  • Claudia Florida Costea

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 51 – 58

Abstract

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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a head and neck cancer with a specific etiology, pathogenesis, anatomical and clinical pathology in comparison to malignancies in this region. We present the case of a patient with giant nasopharyngeal carcinoma with the invasion of the all three cerebral fossa and will try to find a few anatomical models of skull base and intracranial space invasion that are important for clinical diagnosis and imaging and in the treatment of this malignancy

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