title: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma with secondaries at the porta hepatis presenting as obstructive jaundice.
abstract: Recent reports have dispelled the previously held concept that head and neck cancer rarely metastases beyond the cervical lymph nodes. Nasopharyngeal cancer has been reported to have a higher incidence of distant metastases compared to other head and neck cancers, the common sites being bone, lung and liver. A case of nasopharyngeal carcinoma presenting as obstructive jaundice because of secondaries at the porta hepatis is presented here.
authors.affiliation: School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Elango
authors.forename: C R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Jayakumar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D002779:Cholestasis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D008297:Male; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms