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Diabetes insipidus and hypercalcaemia secondary to nasopharyngeal carcinoma
H E Christmas1, R P Mills, R Davies
1Department of Otolaryngology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report a case of nasopharyngeal squamous carcinoma complicated by diabetes insipidus and hypercalcaemia. As there was no evidence of bony metastases we conclude that this latter finding was due to a humoral factor produced by the tumour. The management of these problems is discussed.