Angiofibroma is an uncommon, highly vascular, locally invasive, non-encapsulated tumor with a sharp, if not almost exclusive, predilection for origin in the posterior nares or nasopharynx of adolescent males.
Angiofibroma developed in soft palate is a rare case, so there is no description in several textbooks, but only one case was reported in the medical journals up to date.
Recently we experienced a case of angiofibroma developed in the right soft palate combined with a huge arteriovenous malformation in opposite temporal lobe area, so we report its clinical manifestations and characteristics with a review of
literature.
(Korean J Otolaryngol 38:5, 1995)
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