[Endonasal endoscopic approach in the treatment of sino-nasal inverted papillomas].
BACKGROUND
Sino-nasal inverted papilloma is a rare benign tumor of the nasal fossa and the paranasal sinuses for which the successful surgical treatment by an endonasal approach has been corroborated in the literature. Nevertheless, the authors aim in this study to evaluate the advantages and the limits of this approach, to analyse its failures and its recurrences, and to define the indications for using it with the external or dissimulated approach.


METHODS
42 patients presenting with a sino-nasal inverted papilloma and treated surgically over a ten year period were included in this retrospective study. The operative technique was chosen as a function of the endonasal and radiological examination results (CT scan and MRI). Follow-up was over one year for all patients.


RESULTS
Twenty eight patients were operated exclusively through an endoscopic endonasal approach. Fourteen patients were operated using a combined approach, associating either a vestibular (9 cases), a paralateral nasal (3 cases) or a fronto-orbital (2 cases) approach with endonsal endoscopy. In two cases, an associated squamous cell carcinoma was found. We observed a recurrence in 9.5% of the all cases and in 14.2% of the patients treated using a combined approach.


CONCLUSIONS
Endoscopic endonasal surgery is a validated surgical approach for the treatment of sino-nasal inverted papilloma in that total tumor removal is possible. This approach is particularly indicated in medially-situated papillomas without frontal or maxillary extension. In all other cases, associating an external or dissimulated approach is usually necessary.
Percodani
J
J
Praticien Hospitalier, CHU Rangueil-Larrey, 24, chemin de Pouvourville TSA 300 30, 31059 Toulouse Cedex 9, France. percodani.j@chu-toulouse.fr
Rose
X
X
Vergez
S
S
Pessey
J-J
JJ
Serrano
E
E
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D005005:Ethmoid Sinus; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005626:Frontal Sinus; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008444:Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D018308:Papilloma, Inverted / Q000601:surgery*; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013101:Sphenoid Sinus; D013997:Time Factors