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Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma: Case report and short literature review Cover

Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma: Case report and short literature review

By: Ionut Tanase and  Andra Virlan  
Open Access
|Apr 2021

Abstract

We present a case of a 48-year-old male patient who was admitted in our clinic for right nasal obstruction, antero-posterior mucopurulent rhinorrhea, recurrent right micro-epistaxis, hyposmia, cacosmia and right hemicrania. ENT findings and CT scan detects proliferative, polylobate, vascularized tumor formation occupying the right nasal nostril, with muco-purulent secretions lining the tumor formation. The tumor pushes the intersinusal wall to the side and the nasal septum to the contralateral nostril. The apparent origin is at the level of the right middle nasal meatus, but we could not identify a clear limit from the nasopharynx lateral and posterior wall. Resection of the entire tumor formation was performed under endoscopic control. The histopathological outcome revealed undifferentiated carcinoma; immunohistochemical tests were performed and support the myoepithelial origins.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjr-2021-0014 | Journal eISSN: 2393-3356 | Journal ISSN: 2069-6523
Language: English
Page range: 74 - 80
Submitted on: Dec 15, 2020
Accepted on: Feb 3, 2021
Published on: Apr 30, 2021
Published by: Romanian Rhinologic Society
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Ionut Tanase, Andra Virlan, published by Romanian Rhinologic Society
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