This prospective longitudinal study was done to determine extent of tumor and to highlight the importance of lateral rhinotomy approach for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. Patients with a diagnosis of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma who underwent surgery in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu from April, 2004 to Jan 2009 were included in the study. Extent of tumour and surgi...

Objective: To determine common presenting symptoms, age, disease extent; and the efficacy of different surgical approaches in the diagnosis and treatment of Angiofibroma of nasopharynx. Design: All prepubertal and adolescent patients presenting with nasal obstruction, recurrent epistaxis, denasal speech, conductive deafness and anaemic look, reporting to our dept for consultancy were evaluated....

Inverted papillomas are rare, benign epithelial tumours of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. To evaluate recurrence rates and rates of malignant transformation by lateral rhinotomy and midfacial degloving approaches for inverted papillomas. Retrospective case series, done at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, over an 8-year period from 2000 to 2008. We did a review of 20 cases of T3 inve...

OBJECTIVE To determine, using patient- and observer-rated facial disfigurement measures, whether a lateral rhinotomy imparts significant aesthetic morbidity. DESIGN Retrospective and subject-controlled study in a large, tertiary-referral, academic otolaryngology department. Twenty-one consecutive patients who had undergone lateral rhinotomy for the treatment of inverted papilloma were studied...

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...

A brief review of the world literature on pleomorphic adenoma of the nasal septum is presented. One further case is reported, treated by surgical excision via lateral rhinotomy. Alternative surgical approaches are considered.