Introduction

• Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) is a locally aggressive benign vascular tumor, it accounts for 0.05% of all head and neck tumors occurring in 1 of 150,000 individuals.
• The age of onset is between 10 to 25 years marked by nasal obstruction and recurrent unilateral epistaxis.
• Surgical removal remains the gold standard for the management of this disease almost done nowadays via Endoscopic Techniques, after angiographic mapping and preoperative intra-arterial embolization (PIAE).
• The prognosis is correlated to the extension of the tumor (aggressive power) and the frequency of recurrence.
• The external carotid artery in 64% of cases vascularize JNA [3], few cases from the internal carotid artery are reported [1,2].

References

1. Kaneko K., et al. “Unilateral anomalous left common carotid artery; a case report”. Anatomischer Anzeiger 178 (1996): 477-480.
2. Simon De Freitas and Mahmoud B Malas. “Ectopic origin of the ascending pharyngeal artery: implications for carotid surgery”. Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy10 (2018): 1181-1183.
3. Overdevest JB., et al. “Patterns of vascularization and surgical morbidity in juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma: A case series, systematic review and meta-analysis”. Head Neck2 (2018): 428-443.
4. Succo G., et al. “Spontaneous ICA rupture: a severe late complication after giant nasopharyngeal angiofibroma resection”. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology4 (2013): 581-584.

Citation

Citation: Slimani Mohamed Cherif., et al. “Isolated Embolization case of Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma".Acta Scientific Otolaryngology 3.11 (2020): 16-19.

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