[Juvenile angiofibroma of the nasopharynx--clinical diagnosis and therapy].

Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is an infrequent epipharyngeal tumour necessitating particular diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in comparison to other benign epipharyngeal tumours due to its expansive growth tendency. Our retrospective study is aimed at presenting clinical casuistry of the tumour in order to evaluate modern diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities. The study included 13 male patients, aged 13-24 years, who were hospitalized, diagnostically assessed and surgically treated at the Institute of Otorhinolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Clinical Centre of Serbia over the period 1990-June 2001. The following parameters were analyzed: sex, age groups, preoperative symptoms of the disease, diagnostic methods, embolization, local tumour spreading, number and time of tumour relapses and surgical approach.