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SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research Pathology Research International Volume 2011, Article ID 340763, 5 pages doi:10.4061/2011/340763 Case Report Synchronous Presence of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma and Marginal Zone (MALT-Type) B-Cell Lymphoma in the Pharynx Triantafyllia Koletsa,1 Georgios Petrakis,1 Georgia Karayannopoulou,1 Dimitrios Pappas,1 Konstantinos Markou,2 Georgios Karkavelas,1 and Ioannis Kostopoulos1 1 Department of Pathology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54009 Thessaloniki, Greece 2 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, AHEPA Hospital, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece Correspondence should be addressed to Ioannis Kostopoulos, kostop@med.auth.gr Received 27 January 2011; Revised 4 April 2011; Accepted 11 April 2011 Academic Editor: Ka F. To Copyright © 2011 Triantafyllia Koletsa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Synchronous malignancy of squamous cell carcinoma and malignant lymphoma in the head and neck region is extremely rare. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is a nonlymphomatous, squamous cell carcinoma that occurs in the nasopharyngeal epithelium. Reported herein is a unique case of nasopharyngeal carcinoma occurring simultaneously with MALT-type lymphoma in an 83- year-old woman, who complained of deglutition dysfunction. Endoscopic examination of respective organs revealed a submucosal tumour on the posterior wall of pharynx. Biopsy of the hypopharynx was taken and sent for histological examination, which revealed two different neoplasms. Immunohistochemical and molecular analys