Snuff-induced malignancy of the nasal vestibule: a case report.
The association between nasal snuff and malignancy is not well established. There is epidemiological evidence suggesting that oral tobacco when mixed with lime and betel leaves causes oral cancer in the Indian subcontinent. Similarly, snuff spiced with dried aloe has been reported to cause upper jaw malignancies in the Bantu tribes. The last reported case of nasal snuff causing cancer of the nose was described by John Hill in 1761. We describe here a case of a 69-year-old woman who developed a nasal vestibular malignancy after 30 years of snuff usage, and this, we believe, is the only reported case of nasal snuff causing cancer in the last 2 centuries.
Sreedharan
Suja
S
Department of ENT, Pathology and Prosthodontics, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India. sujasreedharan@yahoo.com
Hegde
Mahesh Chandra
MC
Pai
Radha
R
Rhodrigues
Shobha
S
Kumar
Rajeev
R
Rasheed
Anwar
A
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless / Q000633:toxicity*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed