What color is the sputum from early stage aspirated nasopharyngeal carcinoma

What color is the sputum aspirated from early stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma?

1. If patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma have sputum, there may be blood in the sputum. In this case, they need to undergo further examinations based on their clinical symptoms. An enhanced MRI of the nasopharynx can be performed to determine whether there are any abnormal enhancement foci in the lesions.

2. The sputum aspirated by nasopharyngeal carcinoma contains blood, which may be dark red or bright red. Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma often show symptoms of blowing their nose or aspirating sputum with blood. Some patients show symptoms such as nasal congestion, headache, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck. The treatment is mainly radiotherapy. It turns out that early patients have blood in their aspirated sputum.

Will nasopharyngeal carcinoma cause pleural effusion?

Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma generally do not have pleural effusion. If pleural effusion occurs, they need to go to the hospital for an ultrasound examination, and then receive appropriate treatment based on the examination results. If not treated in time, the effusion may worsen, so they must cooperate with the doctor's guidance for treatment.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a malignant tumor of the nasopharynx that metastasizes to the lungs. Most patients have no obvious symptoms. A few patients may experience coughing, chest tightness, blood in sputum, etc., but when the metastatic tumor in the lungs grows larger, it can cause shortness of breath and chest pain. For this phenomenon of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, it generally does not lead to the appearance of pleural effusion. This phenomenon of pleural effusion may be related to nasopharyngeal carcinoma.