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A giant juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Salim Yüce1, Ismail Önder Uysal, Mansur Doğan
1Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey. salimyucekbb@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibromas are locally growing and highly vascular tumors. They are primarily treated through surgical excision ranging from an open approach to an endoscopic approach. We presented a 20-year-old man with a giant juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma that bilaterally obliterated the pterygopalatine fossa, invaded the sphenoid bone, and extended to the left nasal passage. His complaints were epistaxis and nasal obstruction. After embolization, the patient was treated surgically using the endoscopic approach and declared cured and discharged without any complications.
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