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Year: 2014 Vol. 18 Num. 4 -
Oct/Dec
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1387811
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Extranasopharyngeal Angiofibroma Originating in the Inferior Turbinate: A Distinct Clinical Entity at an Unusual Site |
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How to cite this article |
Baptista MAFB, Pinna FR, Voegels RL. Extranasopharyngeal Angiofibroma Originating in the Inferior Turbinate: A Distinct Clinical Entity at an Unusual Site. Int. Arch. Otorhinolaryngol. 2014;18(4):403-405 |
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Marco Antonio Ferraz de Barros Baptista, Fábio de Rezende Pinna, Richard Louis Voegels
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Key words: |
angiofibroma - differential diagnosis - inferior turbinate |
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Abstract: |
Introduction: The extranasopharyngeal angiofibroma is histologically similar to juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, differing from the latter in clinical and epidemiologic characteristics.
Objectives: We present a case of extranasopharyngeal angiofibroma originating in the inferior turbinate.
Resumed Report: The patient was a girl, 8 years and 6 months of age, who had constant bilateral nasal obstruction and recurrent epistaxis for 6 months, worse on the right side, with hyposmia and snoring. Nasal endoscopy showed a reddish lesion, smooth, friable, and nonulcerated. Computed tomography showed a lesion with soft tissue density in the right nasal cavity. We used an endoscopic approach and found the lesion inserted in the right inferior turbinate. We did a subperiosteal dissection and excision with a partial turbinectomy with a resection margin of 0.5 cm. Histopathology reported it to be an extranasopharyngeal angiofibroma.
Conclusion: Although rare, extranasopharyngeal angiofibroma should be considered in the diagnosis of vascular tumors of the head and neck.
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