title: The importance of angiography in tumours of the head and neck.
abstract: Reference is made to five cases appearing as expansive lesions in the head and neck. In all cases angiography allowed a precise diagnosis of the nature and extent of the lesion. Biopsy which could have been hazardous was thus unnecessary. Moreover, therapeutic embolization in a case of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma prevented massive bleeding during surgery.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography