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Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal

Pleomorphic adenoma is the commonest benign salivary glands tumor. Major salivary glands are mainly involved, and there is very low reported incidence of such tumor in minor salivary glands of nasal cavity. We report a case of 69-year-old woman who complaint of chronic left nasal obstruction and rec...

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Autores principales: Aryal, Gyan Raj, Shrestha, Nischal, Basnet, Meenakshi, Shrestha, Oshan, Sharma, Pratikshya
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9853929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36694606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac152
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Shrestha, Nischal
Basnet, Meenakshi
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Sharma, Pratikshya
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description Pleomorphic adenoma is the commonest benign salivary glands tumor. Major salivary glands are mainly involved, and there is very low reported incidence of such tumor in minor salivary glands of nasal cavity. We report a case of 69-year-old woman who complaint of chronic left nasal obstruction and recurrent scanty bleeding from left nostril for last 2 months. On anterior Rhinoscopy examination, there was a pinkish non-tender mass in left nasal cavity arising from cartilaginous part of nasal septum. Intranasal endoscopic excision was done under general anesthesia and histopathological examination of excised tissue revealed pleomorphic adenoma. Patient was discharged after 3 days. There was no recurrence at sixth month of follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-98539292023-01-23 Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal Aryal, Gyan Raj Shrestha, Nischal Basnet, Meenakshi Shrestha, Oshan Sharma, Pratikshya Oxf Med Case Reports Case Report Pleomorphic adenoma is the commonest benign salivary glands tumor. Major salivary glands are mainly involved, and there is very low reported incidence of such tumor in minor salivary glands of nasal cavity. We report a case of 69-year-old woman who complaint of chronic left nasal obstruction and recurrent scanty bleeding from left nostril for last 2 months. On anterior Rhinoscopy examination, there was a pinkish non-tender mass in left nasal cavity arising from cartilaginous part of nasal septum. Intranasal endoscopic excision was done under general anesthesia and histopathological examination of excised tissue revealed pleomorphic adenoma. Patient was discharged after 3 days. There was no recurrence at sixth month of follow-up. Oxford University Press 2023-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9853929/ /pubmed/36694606 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac152 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Aryal, Gyan Raj
Shrestha, Nischal
Basnet, Meenakshi
Shrestha, Oshan
Sharma, Pratikshya
Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal
title Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal
title_full Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal
title_fullStr Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal
title_full_unstemmed Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal
title_short Pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from Nepal
title_sort pleomorphic adenoma of nasal septum, an unusual site: a case report from nepal
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9853929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36694606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omac152
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