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Syncope at sleep onset in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma
T Atsuumi1, K Maehara, T Saito
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Fukushima Medical College, Japan.
Heart and Vessels
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
A patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma developed atypical parapharyngeal-lesion syncope syndrome associated with stereotypical cycles of heart rate variation, which occurred only when he was drowsy before falling asleep. Vagal tone fluctuation is implicated.