The Management of Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma *A Paper read to the Association of Head and Neck Oncologists of Great Britain at their Summer Meeting in Bristol, July 1972.

new clinic visits. As with other neoplasms of the nasopharynx it is more common in Egypt and Southeast Asia. There have been few of these tumours recorded in the Negro race. It has long been associated with a predilection for pubescent males, and our four patients were all males in the juvenile age group, their ages ranging from ten to sixteen years. However, various reports in the literature, showing a small percentage incidence in adults, would seem to indicate that this tumour can persist into adult life or appear de novo in older patients. If the diagnosis of angiofibroma is made in a female, and Shaheen (1930) had 8% in his series, sex chromosome studies are indicated.