What are the characteristics of the location of nasopharyngeal cancer headache and what are the causes?

Only by understanding the characteristics of a disease can we better understand and treat it. The following author introduces the characteristics of nasopharyngeal carcinoma headache? What is the cause?

What are the characteristics of nasopharyngeal cancer headaches? The characteristics of nasopharyngeal cancer headaches are: located in the forehead, temporal region, face, and occipital region; still intermittent in the early stage, gradually aggravated, continuous in the later stage, diverse in nature, sometimes even severe, more obvious at night, and often ineffective with painkillers. Some cases have symptoms of trigeminal neuralgia. If the cancer metastasizes to the skull base, cranial nerve paralysis will occur. For long-term cured intractable headaches, attention should be paid to the possibility of skull base metastasis of nasopharyngeal cancer, and it is necessary to go to the ENT department for nasopharyngeal examination and skull base CT or MRI examination.

What is the cause? The headache caused by nasopharyngeal carcinoma is pain on one side of the cheek and persistent headache that cannot be relieved. This is because nasopharyngeal carcinoma metastasizes to the skull base, invading the meninges and the second or third trigeminal nerve, causing pain in the upper and lower neck and intractable headache.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma headaches can suddenly worsen on the basis of chronic headaches. Nasal congestion, nose bleeding and conductive hearing loss are often caused by cancer blocking the Eustachian tube. Most cranial nerve paralysis, especially the involvement of the trigeminal nerve, has hard and swollen neck nodes. CT and MRI of the nasopharynx and skull base can clearly diagnose bone damage, swollen lymph nodes and nasopharyngeal biopsy. For long-term incurable intractable headaches, attention should be paid to the possibility of skull base metastasis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and it is necessary to go to the ENT department for nasopharyngeal examination and skull base examination CT or MRI examination.

Through the above introduction, we must understand the characteristics of nasopharyngeal cancer headache. A better understanding of the disease can be dealt with more calmly. I hope the above introduction can be helpful to you.