Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is an uncommon vascular tumor of the head and neck that can be suspected based on the patient’s clinical findings.
Synonym: juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
Most patients are adolescent (“juvenile”) males.
Clinical features:
(1) recurrent, severe spontaneous epistaxis
(2) excessive epistaxis following biopsy or trauma
(3) intranasal mass with nasal obstruction and discharge
(4) facial deformity, with swelling over the cheek and/or temporal regions
(5) recurrent headache
(6) recurrent sinusitis
(7) otitis media and/or mastoiditis
(8) dacrocystitis
(9) visual defects and/or proptosis
(10) cranial nerve palsy
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Specialty: Otolaryngology
