Craniofacial resection is commonly performed in the surgical resection of sinonasal tumours involving anterior skull base. It entails a bicoronal scalp flap with lateral rhinotomy or an extended lateral rhinotomy to expose the anterior skull base. Transfacial approach is necessary in the resection of the nasal part of the tumour. The choice of surgical approach is based heavily on the surgeon's...

RATIONALE Sinonasal inverted papilloma (IP) is a locally aggressive tumor found in the schneiderian membrane, lining the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a case of a 63-year-old woman with undifferentiated carcinoma (UC) arising in an IP in the left maxillary sinus. DIAGNOSES The preoperative diagnosis was IP of the maxillary sinus. INTERVENTIONS We performed...

We studied nine cases of SNUCs presented to the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital University Kebangsaan Malaysia from 1999 to 2003. There were 8 males and 1 female with ages ranging from 24 to 78 years (mean 46.5y). The racial distribution consisted of 5 Chinese (55.5%), 3 Malays (33.3%) and 1 Indian (11.1%). Three patients were Kadish B (33.3%) and six were Kadish C (66.6%) by classi...

ee front matter & 2005 dip.2005.10.009 719 2613; fax: +1 818 71 ess: lester.d.thompson@ Summary Malignant neoplasms of the sinonasal tract encompass a wide variety of epithelial, lymphoid and mesenchymal tumours. The separation and classification of epithelial or neuroepithelial tumours is sometimes challenging, especially when treatment and prognosis are different. Squamous cell carcinoma, ker...

aggressive malignancy arising from the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma was first reported in 1986 by Frierson et al, and since then less than 100 cases have been reported in the literature.1 One previous pediatric case has been described in a 12-year-old boy in India.2 Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma is histologically classified as part of a spectru...

We report the successful use of RADPLAT to treat a patient with an unresectable T4N0 sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma. This patient received 4 cycles of weekly intra-arterial cisplatin together with thiosulfate infusion with concurrent radiation therapy. Radiation therapy was given in 28 daily fractions to 54 Gy using intensity-modulated radiation therapy followed by a hypofractionated ster...