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  • Title: Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.
    Author: Zito J, Fitzpatrick P, Amedee R.
    Journal: J La State Med Soc; 2001 Aug; 153(8):395-8. PubMed ID: 11565634.
    Abstract:
    Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a rare yet potentially destructive vascular tumor that typically affects adolescent males. While the etiology of these tumors remains unknown, great advances have been made in their diagnosis and treatment. When juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is diagnosed at an early stage, the prognosis is generally very good, as patients can be treated with a combination of pre-operative embolization and surgical resection. Advanced juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is much more difficult to treat, since orbital and intracranial involvement are common in the natural progression of the disease. However, due to the rather innocuous presenting symptoms (commonly, nasal obstruction and epistaxis), diagnosis most often occurs in the later stages of the disease. For this reason, it is important for all physicians to have a high degree of suspicion for juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma when evaluating a male adolescent with these symptoms.
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