Stridor: an unusual presentation of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.
Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a rare and benign disease, which is mainly found in adolescent male subjects. It is usually diagnosed on clinical grounds on the basis of its presenting symptoms of nasal obstruction, nasal mass and most importantly unprovoked recurrent moderate to severe epistaxis. Imaging studies are only needed to confirm the diagnosis and formulate the management plan. A case of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is presented here, which presented to us with severe respiratory distress and stridor. Urgent tracheostomy had to be performed before definitive management could be started. Definitive treatment was excision through modified transpalatal with sublabial route, which resulted in successful outcome.
Department of ENT and Head-Neck Surgery, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Hitendra Prakash
HP
Singh
Sunil
S
Kumar
Madhukar
M
Vashishtha
Satya Prakash
SP
Agarwal
D000293:Adolescent; D018322:Angiofibroma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015508:Nasal Obstruction / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D012135:Respiratory Sounds / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D014139:Tracheostomy