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Case 49 - Sinonasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2019

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Alessandro Franchi
Edited by
Alessandro Franchi
Alessandro Franchi
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
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Summary

A 48-year-old woman presented with a 3 months history of nasal obstruction and facial pain. MRI imaging revealed a 5 × 4 cm destructive lesion involving the right nasal cavity, the sphenoid sinus, and initially extending in the anterior cranial fossa. An incisional biopsy of the lesion was taken, with the clinical suspicion of olfactory neuroblastoma. The patient was treated with cycles of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

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Pearls and Pitfalls in Head and Neck Pathology , pp. 108 - 109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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