title: An acquired tufted angioma of the nasal cavity.
abstract: Tufted angiomas are benign vascular tumors that occur mainly in children younger than 5 years, involving the skin with subcutaneous plaques or in a nodular form. We experienced a rare tufted angioma in the nasal cavity. A 35-year-old woman visited our clinic because of frequent epistaxis. A mass was found in the left posterior nasal cavity, adjacent to the middle turbinate, and attached to the nasal septum. The mass was excised using endoscopy, under local anesthesia. The histopathological examination showed a cannon-ball distribution of the vasculature, compatible with a tufted angioma. This is the first tufted angioma in the English literature found in the nasal mucosa, so we report this case with a literature review.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: Young Ha
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Guen-Ho
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Su Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Jin Hee
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004724:Endoscopy; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009296:Nasal Cavity; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery
keywords: Endoscopic surgery; Epistaxis; Nasal cavity; Tufted angioma