Two Cases of Angiofibroma in the Nasal Cavity of the Pregnant Woman

Kim, Hyun Ung; So, Sang Hoon; Jung, Yin Gyo; Lim, Hyun Joon

doi:10.35420/jcohns.1997.8.1.140

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1997; 8(1):140-145

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1997.8.1.140

종설

임신중에 발생한 혈관섬유종 2례

김현웅¹, 소상훈¹, 정인교¹, 임현준¹

Two Cases of Angiofibroma in the Nasal Cavity of the Pregnant Woman

Hyun Ung Kim¹, Sang Hoon So¹, Yin Gyo Jung¹, Hyun Joon Lim¹

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¹한림대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실

¹Department of Otorhinolaryngology, College of Medicine, Hallym University

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Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Angiofibroma is a uncommon, non-metastasizing, highly vascular, benign tumor, but clinically considered as a malignancy because of invasiveness to surrounding structures, bleeding tendency during surgery and high recurrence rate. It occurs usually in the posterolateral wall of nasopharynx in adolescent males. It occurs rarely in females, especially in pregnant woman.

Recently we experienced two rare cases of angiofibroma occurred in the nasal cavity of 25 years and 27 years pregnant woman.

Keywords: Angiofibroma; Pregnant woman