The management of nasopharyngeal fibromas

Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma: A Clinical Study of 69 Cases

“…Both radiotherapy and surgery have been causes of fatal outcome, usually through aggressive attempts at complete irradiation of the tumour (1,5,6,8,10,12). Two of the patients in our series died from complications' of the treatment, one after extensive surgery and the other after irradiation.…”

“…Indications, methods, hazards of radiation, surgical therapy and a combination treatment have been dealt with by various authors (5,6,8,9,10,12,19). All the methods used have proved successful and appear to have yielded practically equivalent results.…”

Fibroma nasofaríngeo juvenil: relato de um caso com invasão das fossas cranianas anterior e média

“…A biopsia deve ser indicada com reservas em virtude da natureza altamente sangrante do tumor 9 ; no entanto ela poderá ser feita quando o diagnóstico fôr duvidoso.…”

Angiographie Carotidienne Éléctive Dans Le Diagnostic Et Le Traitement Des Angiofibromas Nasopharyngiens

“…II considere que son developpement est determine par un facteur hormonal actif durant la puberte mais de courte duree. Cependant, des essais th erapeutiques bases sur cette th eorie deja ancienne n'ont pas donne les r esultats escornptes (FIGI & DAVIS 1950, AUBIN et coll, 1956. Actuellement, le traitement classique est chirurgical et radioth erapique, ou chirurgical seul, precede ou non par quelques seances d'irradiation ou d'injection in situ d'hydrocortisone (SALA & MEGIGHIAN 1956).…”