Brain Metastasis of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

Brain metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Author/year	Gender/age	Ethnicity	Systemic metastasis*	Site in the brain	Histology from brain mets	EBV from brain mets
Khor et al./1978[10]	3 patients	?	?	?	?	?
Liaw et al. /1994 [9]	Male/69	m/p Chinese	+ bone	Bilateral occipital	Squamous cell carcinoma	—
de Bree et al. /2001 [12]	Male/65	?	+	?	?	?
de Bree et al./2001 [12]	Female/64	?	+ lung	?	?	?
Ngan et al. /2002 [8]	Male/33	Chinese	+ lung	Left occipital	Undifferentiated carcinoma	+
Özyar et al./2004 [11]	Male/41	?	—	Temporal lobe	Undifferentiated carcinoma	—
Present case	Male/56	Israeli/North African	+ lung	Occipital	Undifferentiated carcinoma	+

*at time of brain metastasis diagnosis.