[Advance in diagnosis and management of local recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma].

Although radiotherapy is still the first measure of management of nasopharyngeal carcinoma and the curative effect is satisfactory at present, it is hard to avoid the recurrence of local-region in nasopharynx and/or neck lymph nodes in a part of patients after active treatment. Of them, the diagnosis and managements were difficult. This review analyzed the literatures of recent years. The factors of the recurrence, clinical characteristics, modern diagnosis technique and the salvage treatments of modern radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and surgery for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma were introduced.