Volume : 6, Issue : 8, August - 2017

STUDY OF POLYPOIDAL NASAL MASSES IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL (RIMS), RANCHI, JHARKHAND

Dr. Sunil Kumar Mahto, Dr. Kirtijit Chakma, Dr. Ramesh Kumar Srivastava, Dr. Anil Kumar Sinha, Dr. Saurav Banerjee, Dr. Abhishek Verma

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;, serif; text-align: justify;">Introduction: Nasopharyngeal mass resembles a confounding problem in adults because of the increased fear of malignancy with age advancement.</span><sup style="font-family: &quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;, serif; text-align: justify;">[21]</sup></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-45.0pt;margin-bottom:&#10;10.0pt;margin-left:-45.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Method: the retrospective study of all cases who underwent surgery or biopsy in 3 years period from January 2014 to December 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-45.0pt;margin-bottom:&#10;10.0pt;margin-left:-45.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Result: A total of 62 cases (34 males and 18 females) were reported. Most commonly detected pathological lesion was inflammatory polyp(48.4%) followed by Rhinosporidiosis(30.6%), angiofioma (9.8%) ,Malignant lesion constituted 6.3% and others(4.9%).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:-45.0pt;margin-bottom:&#10;10.0pt;margin-left:-45.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:&quot;Bookman Old Style&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Conclusion: Benign lesion are most common and histopathology examination of nasal mass is necessary to rule out malignancy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>