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Jaime Luís Arrarte, MD; Guilherme Franche, MD; Marinez B. Barra, MD; Moacyr Saffer, MD
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2000;126:1032-1035.

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A 30-YEAR-OLD white man presented with a pink polypoid lesion on the posterior wall of his nasopharynx and a 3-month history of occasional occipital headache, for which he took aspirin. An initial diagnosis made previously at another service was antrochoanal polyp (Figure 1, arrow). During fibronasolaryngoscopy, it became evident that the lesion, which was approximately 3 cm long, was pedunculated and that it had originated on the right posterolateral wall of the nasopharynx (Figure 2 [L indicates lesion; SP, soft palate]). A computed tomographic scan showed that the lesion was restricted to the mucosa and that there was no communication with adjacent structures (Figure 3, arrow). To clarify the nature of the tumor, we decided to perform a biopsy with the patient under general anesthesia. The lesion was clamped and incised . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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