Cancer Science & Therapy

Department of Radiotherapy, Mohamed V Military Hospital, Rabat, Morocco

Publications

• Case Report   
  Leptomeningeal Metastases in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Rare Case Report and a Review of Literature
  Author(s): El Amin Marnouche*, Khalid Hadadi, Abdelhak Maghous, Maroua Benlemlih, Mouhcine Hommadi, Mohamed Oukabli, Khalid Saghir Andaloussi, Mohamed Elmarjany and Hassan Sifat
  
  Introduction: The most common sites for distant nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastases are the bone, lung, and liver. Leptomeningeal metastases LM in undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma are rare. Case and outcomes: We present a case report of a 36 years old patient treated initially for undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (T2N3M0, stage III of AJCC 7th edition) by association of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Two years and half later, the patient developed a frontal leptomeningeal metastasis in association with subcutaneous and left parotid relapses on MRI. The patient was treated by resection of the leptomeningeal and subcutaneous lesions. These masses turned out to be an undifferentiated carcinoma consistent with nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasis. The patient refused parotidectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy of leptomeningeal meta.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/1948-5956.2021.13.483

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