A 23-year-old male presented with a 3-month history of left purulent rhinorrhea, progressive nasal obstruction, and intermittent epistaxis. A fiberoptic examination revealed a large vascular polypoid mass completely filling the left nasal cavity. CT and MRI scans showed a large hypervascular mass involving the left nasal airway, maxillary antrum, and the anterior ethmoid cells. There was no bon...

The authors presents three cases of pleomorphic adenoma of the nasal cavity treated in the ENT Department, Medical University of Gdańsk in years 1974-2002. That material was also extended in analysis of fourth case treated in our Department and described earlier. In that group were three men and one woman in age of 31-62 years. The most common symptoms were unilateral nasal obstruction, headach...

Objectives. Hemangiopericytoma is a rare tumor entity deriving from pericytes. Less than 5% of hemangiopericytoma occur in the nasal cavity and are characterised by a rather benign nature with low tendency of metastasis. However, as the recurrence rate in the literature ranges from 9.5% to 50%-depending on the length of followup-a radical surgical resection is considered as the gold-standard tr...

We report a rare case of leiomyosarcoma arising in the nasal cavity. A 45-year-old woman visited our hospital because of recurrent epistaxis in 1998. A biopsy was performed on a mass in the posterior area of the left nasal cavity, and a histological diagnosis of leiomyosarcoma was made. Although the nasal tumor was resected via left lateral rhinotomy, tumor recurrence was detected. In addition,...

OBJECTIVE Rhinoplasty frequently includes harvesting of nasal septal cartilage. The objective of this prospective basic investigation is to determine whether cartilage can regenerate after submucosal resection (SMR) of the nasal septum in the rabbit. Neocartilage formation has not heretofore been described in this model. METHODS By lateral rhinotomy, SMR was performed on 17 rabbits followed b...

AIM Presentation of experiences and results of surgical treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS 4 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma operated in Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology of Poznan University of Medical Sciences between 2006 and 2011. In one case operation was performed via transpalatal approach and in other three cases via transfacial ap...

INTRODUCTION Solitary fibrous tumours (SFTs) of the nose and paranasal sinuses are extremely rare. These were originally described as neoplasms of the pleura originating from spindle cells. It is further sub-classified as a benign type of mesothelial tumour. Its occurrence in many extra pleural sites have been reported earlier, mainly in the liver, parapharyngeal space, sublingual glands, tongu...

OBJECTIVE To describe the use of the transglabellar subcranial approach for the management of congenital nasal masses in the pediatric population. METHODS Case series. Medical records of 5 patients who underwent resection of congenital nasal lesions via the subcranial approach were reviewed. RESULTS Five children underwent successful resection of congenital nasal lesions with intracranial e...