Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma: Timisoara ENT Department's experience.

Unlabelled: Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a histologically benign, but very aggressive and destructive tumor found exclusively in young males. The management of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma has changed in recent years, but it still continues to be a challenge for the multidisciplinary head and neck surgical team.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to review a series of 30 patients describing the treatment approach used and studying the outcome of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma in the ENT Department Timisoara, Romania for a period of 30 years.

Mast cell reaction in malignant laryngeal neoplasm.

Introduction: Mast cells are normal connective tissue residents. Their densities vary from an organ to other, but are constantly well represented in respiratory tract. Mast cell hyperplasia was found in many malignant tumors, but the significance of this phenomenon is still unknown.

[Arteriovenous malformation complicated by serious recurrent epistaxis].

Arteriovenous malformations in the region of the head and the neck are rarely manifested by epistaxis. These lesions are usually treated by the vascular surgeon, neurosurgeon, maxillofacial surgeon etc. Anyhow, the role of the specialist in otorhinolaryngology is indispensable when epistaxis gives morphological and functional modifications of the organs in the region of the head and neck.