title: [Use of current radiation techniques in the diagnosis and treatment of juvenile angiofibromas of the nasopharynx].
abstract: In 1992-2001 seventeen patients with juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibromas (JNAs) were treated at Krasnoyarsk Territorial Clinical Hospital. The patients underwent a comprehensive diagnosis involving computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and angiography, followed by tumor vascular embolization. Later on JNAs were surgically removed in 14 patients, a course of radiation therapy was performed. In suspected JNA, the authors consider it necessary to concomitantly use CT, MRI, and angiography, which provides the most complete diagnostic picture of a pathological focus. X-ray endovascular occlusion considerably lowers blood loss, facilitates a complete angiofibroma removal, and affects the tolerability of radiation therapy in inoperable cases.
authors.affiliation: Krasnoyarsk Territorial Clinical Hospital, Krasnoyarsk State Medical Academy.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Stoliarov
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Protopopov
authors.forename: G I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Burenkov
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Kochkina
authors.forename: E P
authors.initials: EP
authors.lastname: Konstantinov
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Vakhrushev
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Krasitskiĭ
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Petrosian
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Usanin
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Putilin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018322:Angiofibroma / Q000098:blood supply / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D000792:Angiography; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed