García EI, Jiménez GW, Thompson LJL, Sabatier CA, Llibre GJC, Sánchez GY

Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 163-172
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ABSTRACT

The nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (ANJ) in adolescence it is a not very frequent benign tumor that is presented only in adolescent years, between 10 to 25 years of age. It represents 0.05 % of the head and neck tumors, their growth it is slow and it behaves in a invasive ways destroying the adjacent structures, having a predilection of the nasopharyngeal in the masculine sex. It is a very vascularizided tumor for what the main symptom is the nasal bleed and nasal obstruction, the treatment is exclusively surgical. A 35 year-old mature patient is presented that comes to the consultation for nasal bleeding of 3 months of evolution for severe nasal left and nasal homolateral obstruction, to the physical exam in the previous rhinoscopy a tumor is observed and the report of pathological Anatomy informs nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.

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