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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 36(1); 1993 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1993;36(1): 150-155.
A case of giant nasopharyngeal malignant fibrous histiocytoma(MFH) causing acute respiratory distress.
Uk Lim, Chan Sik Shin, Kyung Rae Kim, Hyung Seok Lee
급성 호흡부전증을 일으킨 거대한 비인강 악성섬유조직구종 1례
임 욱 · 신창식 · 김경래 · 이형석
한양대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실
ABSTRACT

MFH is a pleomorphic sarcoma first described by O'Brien and Stout in 1964. This tumor has been usually found in the muscles of the limbs and retroperitoneum, more uncommonly in the head and neck, and extremely rarely in the nasopharynx. The great majority of cases of MFH in the head and neck present with a painless mass, have a peak incidence in the seventh decade and are distinctly uncommon before the fourth decade of life. Occasionally, synchronous tumors have been noted. The authors recently experienced a case of giant nasopharyngeal MFH combined with malignant transformed inverted papilloma in the nasal cavity in sixty-five years old man causing acute respiratory distress which required a preoperative emergency tracheostomy.

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