Article Type
Original Study
Abstract
BACKGROUND : Epithelial neoplasms are uncommon lesions affecting the sino-nasal tract. AIM : To study the incidence, mode of presentation and histological types of sino-nasal epithelial tumours in the surgical pathology material and surgical procedures and outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS : All sino-nasal epithelial tumours, biop-sied or surgically excised over a period of six years, were studied. The tumours were classified as benign or malignant. The histology was correlated with the clinical presentation, investigations, surgical procedures and outcome. RESULTS : In six years, there were 139 sino-nasal tumours. One hundred one epithelial tumors (72.6%) outnumbered the non-epithelial tumours were diagnosed on the basis of histopathology. Forty-five were benign (44.5%) and 56 malignant (55.5%); occurring predominantly in males. Benign lesions included three fungiform papillomas (exophyt-ic) (6.6% of the benign tumors) and 42 inverted papillomas, with recurrence in five inverted papillomas (11.9%). Malignant changes were detected in two cases of inverted papillomas (4.8%) at initial surgery and in one of five recurrent cases (20%). En-doscopic and external approaches were of equivalent results. Squamcus cell carcinomas were the commonest among malignant tumours with thirty cases(53.2%)
Recommended Citation
Abu-Samra, Mohamed and El-Hawary, Amira
(2006)
"SINO-NASAL EPITHELIAL TUMOURS: A CLINICO-PATHOLOGICAL STUDY,"
Mansoura Medical Journal: Vol. 35
:
Iss.
2
, Article 10.
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.21608/mjmu.2006.128898
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