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SANTANA ALVAREZ, Jorge. Nasosinusal inverted papilloma. AMC [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.2, pp. 261-270. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: inverted papilloma is a tumor of frequent location in the nasosinusal region, whose late clinical manifestations and the possibility of recidivation and malignancy requires an exhaustive study and a resolvent treatment. Objective: to study the behavior of nasosinusal inverted papilloma in the last nine years. Method: a descriptive and longitudinal study of nasosinusal inverted papilloma was conducted at the University Military Hospital Dr. Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja of Camagüey, from 2001 to 2009. Variables like age, sex, race, symptoms and signs, surgical technical classification and evolution after therapeutics were analyzed. Results are commented and also compared. Results: in the six studied patients with the diagnosis of the disease, the destructive picture was accompanied by rhinorrhea; however in one of them, the cause that motivated the request of secondary attention was the expulsion of tumor´s remains. In the 83,3 % of cases, by its extension and location, the tumor was located in the stages II and IV of Krouse, previous endoscopic and imaging study to assessed its extension and staging. Combined or external surgery was accomplished, with the gained experience, results were compared with another authors. Conclusions: nasosinusal inverted papilloma may appear for the fist time with different clinical manifestations, being nasal obstruction the most frequent. It is define the importance of the complete removal to achieve the success of the surgical treatment and a low rate of recidivation.

Palabras clave : PAPILLOMA, INVERTED [diagnosis]; SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; PARANASL SINUSES; NASAL OBSTRUCTION.

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