An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

A 10-year-old boy presented with left-sided nasal obstruction and epistaxis. Endoscopic evaluation revealed a polypoid mass in the vestibule arising from the lateral wall of the nasal cavity anteroinferior to the left inferior turbinate. Computed tomography (CT) scan showed a soft tissue opacity in...

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Main Authors: Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, Ravishankar, Gupta, Amit, Bansal, Juhi, Kattimani, Mahesh Virupaksha, Shabadi, Sachin Shivayogappa, Baser, Suresh Chandra
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586446/
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spelling pubmed-35864462013-03-09 An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, Ravishankar Gupta, Amit Bansal, Juhi Kattimani, Mahesh Virupaksha Shabadi, Sachin Shivayogappa Baser, Suresh Chandra Case Report A 10-year-old boy presented with left-sided nasal obstruction and epistaxis. Endoscopic evaluation revealed a polypoid mass in the vestibule arising from the lateral wall of the nasal cavity anteroinferior to the left inferior turbinate. Computed tomography (CT) scan showed a soft tissue opacity in the vestibule of the left nasal cavity. After the endoscopic excision of the mass, postoperative and histopathological analyses confirmed the diagnosis of an angiofibroma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3586446/ /pubmed/23476853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/175326 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ravishankar Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, Ravishankar
Gupta, Amit
Bansal, Juhi
Kattimani, Mahesh Virupaksha
Shabadi, Sachin Shivayogappa
Baser, Suresh Chandra
spellingShingle Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, Ravishankar
Gupta, Amit
Bansal, Juhi
Kattimani, Mahesh Virupaksha
Shabadi, Sachin Shivayogappa
Baser, Suresh Chandra
An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
author_facet Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, Ravishankar
Gupta, Amit
Bansal, Juhi
Kattimani, Mahesh Virupaksha
Shabadi, Sachin Shivayogappa
Baser, Suresh Chandra
author_sort Pillenahalli Maheshwarappa, Ravishankar
title An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_short An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Location of Juvenile Angiofibroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort unusual location of juvenile angiofibroma: a case report and review of the literature
description A 10-year-old boy presented with left-sided nasal obstruction and epistaxis. Endoscopic evaluation revealed a polypoid mass in the vestibule arising from the lateral wall of the nasal cavity anteroinferior to the left inferior turbinate. Computed tomography (CT) scan showed a soft tissue opacity in the vestibule of the left nasal cavity. After the endoscopic excision of the mass, postoperative and histopathological analyses confirmed the diagnosis of an angiofibroma.
publisher Hindawi Publishing Corporation
publishDate 2013
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3586446/
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