Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma and familial adenomatous polyposis: an association?

Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a benign neoplasm affecting the nasopharynx of male adolescents. Two patients treated at Temple University Hospital for this condition were also diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis. Familial adenomatous polyposis results from the inheritance of a mutated adenomatous polyposis coli gene in an autosomal dominant pattern.

Admission planning and complications of direct laryngoscopy.

Increasingly, third party payers are challenging the necessity of a hospital admission for endoscopic procedures. Direct laryngoscopy (DL), with or without open, rigid esophagoscopy or flexible, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, was evaluated for the incidence of perioperative complications and associated risk factors. A retrospective review of 200 in-patient admissions between 1987 and 1990 for direct laryngoscopy or panendoscopy is presented.