Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma Presenting with Acute Airway Obstruction

We describe a case of a 24-year-old male presenting urgently with a juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) with difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, and respiratory distress following throat swelling. The swelling was reduced with administration of dexamethasone and the JNA was surgically...

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Autores principales: Wheat, Chikoti, Bickley, Ryan J., Cohen, Erik, Wenzler, Danya, Hunter, Nancy, Astiz, Donna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27752379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1537276
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author Wheat, Chikoti
Bickley, Ryan J.
Cohen, Erik
Wenzler, Danya
Hunter, Nancy
Astiz, Donna
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description We describe a case of a 24-year-old male presenting urgently with a juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) with difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, and respiratory distress following throat swelling. The swelling was reduced with administration of dexamethasone and the JNA was surgically resected within 48 hours. This presentation was atypical given the acuity of presentation and the patient's older age.
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spelling pubmed-50562892016-10-17 Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma Presenting with Acute Airway Obstruction Wheat, Chikoti Bickley, Ryan J. Cohen, Erik Wenzler, Danya Hunter, Nancy Astiz, Donna Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report We describe a case of a 24-year-old male presenting urgently with a juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) with difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, and respiratory distress following throat swelling. The swelling was reduced with administration of dexamethasone and the JNA was surgically resected within 48 hours. This presentation was atypical given the acuity of presentation and the patient's older age. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-09-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5056289/ /pubmed/27752379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1537276 Text en Copyright © 2016 Chikoti Wheat et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5056289/
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