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KMID : 0377619760300050587
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1976 Volume.30 No. 5 p.587 ~ p.590
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A.Case of a Huge Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma Invading the Cranium
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Abstract
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Na sopharyngeal; angiofibroma is an uncommon benign tumor of vascular fibrotic nature.
It is found mainly in the adolescent male and clinically malignant because of
bleeding tendency in surgical procedures and resistance to treatment.
Author met an eighteen years old male, who had a huge nasopharyngeal angiofibroma invading the cranium. He got turbinectomy and transpalatal excision of the tumor at the other hospital three and two years prior to the first visit to our clinic, respectively.
Besides the child fist sized pinkish tumor mass in the nasopharynx extending to the right nasal vestibule, marked exophthalmos with visual disturbance and retraction of the eardrum were seen on the right side. Carotid angiorgram revealed that the tumor mass destructed the sella turcica and, grew into the temporal lobe of brain.
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