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WALTER D. HARRIS, MD
University Hospital University of Michigan Medical Center Ann Arbor, Mich

Arch Otolaryngol. 1965;82(5):552.

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To the Editor: I read, with a great deal of interest, Dr. Sardana's article "Nasopharyngeal Fibroma" in a recent edition of the ARCHIVES OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY81:584 [June] 1965). I had the occasion to participate in the treatment of a similar case.

This patient, an 18-year-old white male private patient of Dr. Walter P. Work, presented at the University of Michigan Hospital with nasal obstruction and bleeding from the right nostril. On physical examination, a recurrent angiofibroma was found presenting as a tumor mass in the right side of the nose and nasopharynx with a moderate size (3x3x2 cm) swelling beneath the zygoma in the right cheek. In routine examination, a stethescope was placed over the mass in the cheek, and a loud bruit was heard. The bruit was accentuated by exercise, but on prolonged bed rest, it became less audible. Carotid arteriograms showed the tumor to be extremely vascular . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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