title: Endoscopic transoral and transmaxillary excision of the infratemporal fossa hemangioma.
abstract: Hemangiomas in the infratemporal fossa (ITF) are extremely rare benign vascular tumors. For many tumors of the ITF, with the exception of some small hemangiomas, a lateral facial approach has often been required. Recently, however, there have been some reports that minimally invasive endoscopic surgery can be used in the ITF; this would reduce the risk of surgical complications. To date, there has been no report of a hemangioma of the ITF exceeding 6 cm being resected by the endoscopic approach without facial incisions. Here, however, we report two cases of ITF hemangiomas that were completely extracted endoscopically, using a transmaxillary and transoral approach, without facial incisions or surgical complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Japan. Electronic address: muneo@jcom.home.ne.jp.
authors.forename: Muneo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakaya
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Japan.
authors.forename: Wataru
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Kida
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Japan.
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Japan.
authors.forename: Shintaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yoshihara
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Japan.
authors.forename: Teruhiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fuchigami
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009055:Mouth; D009296:Nasal Cavity; D057605:Natural Orifice Endoscopic Surgery / Q000379:methods*; D019292:Skull Base Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013701:Temporal Bone
keywords: Endoscopic surgery; Hemangioma; Infratemporal fossa; Venous malformation