The importance of angiography in tumours of the head and neck.
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.
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