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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">841</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>EXTRA NASOPHARYNGEAL ANGIOFIBROMA OF THE SPHENOID SINUS: A RARE CASE REPORT&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Karthikeyan</surname><given-names>P.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Pulimoottil</surname><given-names>Davis Thomas</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>13</day><month>06</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>8</fpage><lpage>13</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim: This study aimed to find the effect of preoperative tumor embolization and transnasal endoscopic excision of a sphenoid sinus angiofibroma on the postoperative outcome. Case Report: A thirteen year old male presented to the Outpatient ENT Department of a tertiary care centre, with a history of recurrent left-sided spontaneous painless epistaxis since one year. Diagnostic Nasal Endoscopy showed a pink globular mass seen occupying the left choana and extending into the left nasal cavity. CT Paranasal sinuses (Plain and Contrast) revealed a well-defined moderately enhancing soft tissue lesion seen predominantly at the base of sphenoid sinus on the left side, extending into the choanal region with destruction of the base of the sphenoid bone. Patient underwent Diagnostic Angiography in view of pre-operative embolisation and the patient later underwent embolisation of feeder artery supplying the massusing Gelfoam. Subsequently the patient underwent Transnasal Endoscopic Excision of the tumour under general anaesthesia and the specimen was sent for histopathological examination, which revealed features suggestive of Angiofibroma. Discussion: Extranasopharyngealangiofibromas are vascular fibrous nodules occurring outside the nasopharynx and are rare, benign neoplasms characterized by a different biological history and clinical features with respect to nasopharyngeal tumours, and for these reasons, should be regarded as a separate clinical entity. Conclusion: Although it sometimes involves the sphenoid sinus, angiofibroma rarely originates from this site and only five such cases have been reported in the literature.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Extranasopharyngealangiofibroma</kwd><kwd> sphenoid sinus</kwd><kwd> epistaxis</kwd><kwd> transnasal endoscopic excision</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
