Heavily Calcified Esthesioneuroblastoma in a 72-year-old

A 72-year-old female presented with the complaint of declining vision. Workup included magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which revealed a large enhancing mass extending into the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, and anterior cranial fossa. Computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed extensive calcification. S...

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Autores principales: Maurer, Robert, Henry, April, Maurer, Timothy, Staity, Ghazal, Williams, Nicole, Goyal, Neerav, Zacharia, Brad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
Materias:
Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6538117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183279
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4298
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author Maurer, Robert
Henry, April
Maurer, Timothy
Staity, Ghazal
Williams, Nicole
Goyal, Neerav
Zacharia, Brad
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description A 72-year-old female presented with the complaint of declining vision. Workup included magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which revealed a large enhancing mass extending into the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, and anterior cranial fossa. Computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed extensive calcification. Subsequent endonasal biopsy revealed the tumor to be an unusually calcified esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB). The patient elected for palliative measures. The case provides a basis for a discussion on rare esthesioneuroblastomas and highlights the possibility of extensive calcification on such tumors.
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spelling pubmed-65381172019-06-10 Heavily Calcified Esthesioneuroblastoma in a 72-year-old Maurer, Robert Henry, April Maurer, Timothy Staity, Ghazal Williams, Nicole Goyal, Neerav Zacharia, Brad Cureus Otolaryngology A 72-year-old female presented with the complaint of declining vision. Workup included magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) which revealed a large enhancing mass extending into the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, and anterior cranial fossa. Computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed extensive calcification. Subsequent endonasal biopsy revealed the tumor to be an unusually calcified esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB). The patient elected for palliative measures. The case provides a basis for a discussion on rare esthesioneuroblastomas and highlights the possibility of extensive calcification on such tumors. Cureus 2019-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6538117/ /pubmed/31183279 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4298 Text en Copyright © 2019, Maurer et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Maurer, Robert
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Heavily Calcified Esthesioneuroblastoma in a 72-year-old
title Heavily Calcified Esthesioneuroblastoma in a 72-year-old
title_full Heavily Calcified Esthesioneuroblastoma in a 72-year-old
title_fullStr Heavily Calcified Esthesioneuroblastoma in a 72-year-old
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title_short Heavily Calcified Esthesioneuroblastoma in a 72-year-old
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topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6538117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183279
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4298
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