Headache as the Sole Symptom of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Its Clinical Implications

Table 1

Characteristics of NPC patients with headache as the initial presentation.

Pt.	Age	Sex	T staging	Diagnostic image	Treatment	Followup (mo)	Remission of headache
1	40	M	T4	MR	IC/CCRT/AC	22/AWD	N/A
2	55	M	T4	MR	IC/CCRT	61/NED	Y
3	52	M	T4	MR	IC/CCRT/AC	53/NED	Y
4	78	M	T4	CT	IC/CCRT/AC	20/PF	Y
5	64	F	T1	—	RT alone	44/NED	Y
6	50	M	T4	MR	Palliative RT	19/expired	N/A
7	53	M	T4	—	IC/CCRT/AC	17/expired	N/A
8	77	M	T4	MR	Palliative RT	4/expired	N/A
9	69	M	T4	MR	IC/CCRT	15/PF	Y
10	43	F	T4	MR	IC/CCRT/AC	30/DM	Y
11	61	F	T4	MR	IC/CCRT/AC	20/PF	Y
12	48	M	T3	—	CCRT	15/NED	Y
13	49	F	T4	—	IC/CCRT/AC	14/NED	Y
14	37	M	T4	CT	IC/CCRT/AC	24/NED	Y

NED: no evidence of disease, PF: progression-free, DM: distant metastasis, AWD: alive with disease.