Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma: Clinical diagnosis and treatment experience

Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is an infrequent epi-pharyngeal tumor necessitating particular diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in comparison to other benign epipharyngeal tumors due to its expansive growth tendency.Our retrospective study is aimed AU/NZ at presenting clinical casuistry of the tumor in order to evaluate modern diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities.The study included 13 male patients, aged 13-24 years, who were hospitalized, diagnostically assessed and surgically treated at the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Centre of Serbia over the period 1990 - Footrests June 2001.The following parameters were analyzed: sex, age groups, preoperative symptoms of the disease, diagnostic methods, embolization, local tumor spreading, number and time of tumor relapses and surgical approach.