Fibroma
Surgeons remove a cementifying fibroma from the ethmoidal sinus and cranial base
Published in Cancer Weekly, April 8th, 2003
"A case of an 11-year-old girl with cementifying fibroma in the ethmoidal sinus extending to the anterior cranial base is presented," researchers in Japan report.
"She complained of slowly progressive nasal obstruction and anosmia. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a tumor in both ethmoidal and sphenoidal sinuses and nasal cavity. Although a tumor reduction surgery was attempted through a transnasal approach, tumor size increased gradually and right exopthalmos subsequently appeared," wrote I. Akao and colleagues, St. Marianna University School of...
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