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Brian J. Chung, MD; Colleen S. Embi, MD; Klaus Sellheyer, MD; Paul R. Krakovitz, MD
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005;131:81.

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A 3-year-old boy presented for evaluation of a mass within the nasal vestibule. The mass, which had first been noticed approximately 2 months earlier, had burst and bled on one occasion, and subsequently regrew. Otherwise, the patient had been asymptomatic. His family denied any history of trauma, nasal discharge, allergic symptoms, hoarseness, or weight loss. His medical history was remarkable only for recurrent otitis media, for which he had undergone placement of tympanostomy tubes 2 years earlier.

Anterior rhinoscopy revealed a rubbery, well-circumscribed mass along the septum of the left nasal vestibule. The mass measured approximately 0.5 cm in greatest dimension and was nonerythematous and nontender on palpation. The findings of flexible nasolaryngoscopy were otherwise normal. There were no other masses or lymphadenopathy present, and the remainder of the head and neck examination was within . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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