Juvenile angiofibromas: a 40-year surgical experience.

A series of 22 patients with histologically confirmed angiofibroma were treated primarily by surgical removal at the University of Freiburg ENT clinic during the 40-year period, 1946-1986. These tumors were staged according to size and extension on the basis of roentgenographic and surgical findings. Specific analysis of the operative approaches and recurrence rate by stage are included.

[Extracranial aneurysms of the internal carotid artery--an otorhinolaryngologic problem?].

The problem of high cervical internal carotid aneurysms is demonstrated in two patients. One patient presented with a massive intermittent bleeding in the nasopharynx, the second with a sudden paralysis of the cranial nerves 9-12. 2/3 of these extracranial internal carotid aneurysms are situated at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery and 1/3 are located proximal the skull base.