Abstract

GRINON PORTILLO, Luis; GARCIA GARCIA, Eneida Guarina  and  DEL PINO, Guillermo. Inverted papilloma: a case presentation. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.1, pp.1-6. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: inverted papilloma is a benign tumor that frequently affects nasosinusal cavities. Clinically it is characterized by its unlimited growth, its high recidivation percentage and by the malignancy possibility. Clinical case: a 39 years-old patient with well treated high blood pressure antecedents presenting bilateral nasal obstruction, frontal headache and occasional epistaxis episodes, for eight months approximately. Studies carried out during the hospital stay are exposed, as well as the behavior carried out.

Keywords : PAPILLOMA; INVERTED; HEADACHE; HYPERTENSION; EPITAXIS; ADULT; CASE STUDIES.

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