title: [Correlation between TCM syndrome type and intracranial aggressive potentiality of untreated nasopharyngeal carcinoma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the correlation between TCM syndrome type and intracranial aggressive potentiality of untreated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty untreated NPC patients of different syndrome types were treated conventionally and followed up for over one year. Correlation between the TCM syndrome type differentiated at the first consultation and the intracranial aggressive potentiality of the primary focus of NPC were analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The incidence of intracranial aggression was significantly higher in patients with Qi-Yin deficiency type than that in those with other two syndrome types during the follow-up period (P < 0.01).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intracranial aggessive rate in the untreated NPC patients of Qi-Yin deficiency type was higher than in those of either Qi and blood coagulation type or fire-toxin stagnation type.
authors.affiliation: College of Integrative Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changsha.
authors.forename: Shu-Jing
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Dao-Fa
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Ying-Chun
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D013577:Syndrome