(A) The history and clinical manifestations: Clinical case of 30 ~ 50-year-old blood T, stuffy nose, headache, tinnitus, deafness, the symptoms of patients with neck mass, first consider the possibility of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a comprehensive positive check.
(B) nasopharyngeal examination: nasopharyngeal cancer diagnosis is extremely important common method, where suspected nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients with nasopharyngeal mirror must be carefully examined repeatedly, can be found in nasopharyngeal lateral or nose or nasopharynx top after hole etc. mucosal surfaces was gray, rough, erosion and ulcers, or see nodular mass patchy uplift, and other desirable biopsy to confirm the diagnosis.
(C) cytology examination: direct smear, using cotton-wipe (positive rate of 88%), special keys blowing scraps of nasopharyngeal smears, nylon brush collection cells (positive rate of 92.4%), the suction method ( positive rate of 91%), a simple, convenient, can be added biopsy deficiencies.
(D) nasopharyngeal biopsy: clamp nasal or oral lesions from living tissues for histological examination.
(5) X-ray examinations. X-ray include: nasopharyngeal lateral skull base and films. Observation of the top wall of the nasopharynx after soft tissue shadow of submucosal invasion and expansion of the base of skull bone damage. 2. Mortar contrast barium X money: Barium mortar infusion nasal cavity. Submucosal lesions on contrast-more clearly than the nose, nasopharynx can be found under the original can not be found smaller and submucosal carcinoma invasion.
(6) CT scans: CT can show that the nasopharynx small soft tissue uplift, and help determine the direction of biopsy site, to early diagnosis, can be found by the occupying nasopharyngeal carcinoma arising from the early signs, such as muscle thickening, pharynx recess occlusion or disappeared, after the pharyngeal opening of the eustachian tube of lip uplift, thickening to plug. Also observed violations of parapharyngeal space cancer caused by the soft tissue shadow, parapharyngeal fat between the muscle and fat layer Gap signs disappeared.
(7) luciferase test: NPC luciferase absorb more than the normal tissue. After oral or intravenous injection, to a certain intensity of ultraviolet radiation, can display different fluorescence reaction, normal mucosa were purple blue, yellow or dark yellow cancer.
(8) immunological tests: In patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in a decisive anti-EB virus antigen (VCA, EA, MA, CF / S and EBNA) high antibody titer, EB virus shell antigen antibody immunoglobulin A (EBV - VCA-IGA) on the specific diagnosis of nasopharyngeal cancer, lymphatic epithelial type, squamous cell carcinoma positive rate of 81.5% to 97.3 X. In addition it can also be used for the monitoring of clinical conditions.