Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Updated: 10/12/2020
© Jun Wang, MD, PhD
General features
- Rare, benign
- Adolescent and young adult males
- Locally aggressive
- Likely recur
Clinical presentations
- Nasal obstruction, epistaxis
- Commonly posterolateral wall of roof of nose
Key morphological features
- Polypoid mass
- Well circumscribed
- Stellate and staghorn blood vessels
- Fibrotic background
Markers
- Commonly express androgen receptor
- Variable estrogen or progesterone receptors
Treatment
- Surgery
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