Staging: Our series shows that either CT and MR can provide essential information in the staging of NPC. Magnetic resonance, however, seems to provide the most detailed imaging of soft tissue invasion outside the nasopharynx and of retropharyngeal node involvement. Nonetheless, its limitations in evaluating bone details suggest that CT should be always performed when the status of base of skull is uncertain on MR. General reasons and our data indicate that CT can still be considered a valuable tool in routine NPC staging. Follow up: Magnetic resonance may be the modality of choice because it seems to solve, more often than CT, the problems of differentiation between postradiation changes and recurring tumor, apart from those cases showing subtle bone erosions on initial CT scan.