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Tumors of the Nose and Sinuses

Built from Behrbohm — Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases with Head and Neck Surgery

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6 sections · 57 slides

  1. 01

    Overview

    • What this topic teaches you

    1 slide

  2. 02

    Benign Nose & Sinus Tumors

    Growths that stay local — but some still need surgery

    • Benign tumors: an uncommon but varied group
    • Osteoma: a slow, well-defined bony growth
    • Osteoma: why it can cause trouble, and how it is found
    • Osteoma: treatment
    • Large frontal sinus osteoma (open approach)
    • Metaplastic osteogenesis: misplaced bone
    • Ossifying fibroma: a localised fibro-osseous lesion
    • Inverted papilloma: bland look, real danger
    • Inverted papilloma: recognising and treating it
    • Inverted papilloma filling the nasal cavity

    10 slides

  3. 03

    Skin Cancers of the External Nose

    The most sun-exposed feature of the face

    • The three skin cancers of the external nose
    • Basal cell carcinoma: what it is and what drives it
    • Basal cell carcinoma of the nose
    • Basal cell carcinoma: how it looks and behaves
    • Basal cell carcinoma: the three main clinical types
    • Basal cell carcinoma: subtypes and diagnosis
    • Basal cell carcinoma: treatment and the Mohs technique
    • Squamous cell carcinoma of the external nose
    • Malignant melanoma: the most dangerous skin cancer
    • Melanoma: the warning signs in a mole
    • Melanoma: the four clinical forms
    • Superficially spreading melanoma
    • Melanoma: diagnosis and the sentinel node
    • Melanoma: treatment and what governs outcome
    • Melanoma five-year survival by stage
    • Clark levels of melanoma invasion depth

    16 slides

  4. 04

    Malignant Nasal & Sinus Tumors

    Cancer hidden deep inside — silent until late

    • What kinds arise, and how common they are
    • Relative histological frequency of sinonasal malignancy
    • Danger: these tumors stay silent
    • Signs the tumor has invaded neighbours
    • Location predicts prognosis: Sebileau and Ohngren
    • Typical directions of spread of nose and sinus tumors
    • Diagnosis: building the full picture before treating
    • Understanding the TNM staging system
    • TNM: T stages — maxillary sinus
    • TNM: T stages — nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus
    • TNM: N (nodes) and M (metastasis) — all sites

    11 slides

  5. 05

    Olfactory Neuroblastoma

    The rare cancer of the smell epithelium (esthesioneuroblastoma)

    • Esthesioneuroblastoma: cancer of smell tissue
    • Esthesioneuroblastoma: treatment

    2 slides

  6. 06

    Managing Sinonasal Malignancy

    Four weapons, usually combined

    • The four treatment methods
    • Surgery: three standard operations
    • Extent of upper-jaw resection for sinonasal cancer
    • Tumor destroying the orbital floor on CT
    • Radiotherapy: when and how it is used
    • Chemotherapy and immunotherapy
    • Prognosis of sinonasal malignancy
    • Three ideas to carry away
    • Key takeaways
    • Sources cited in the text
    • Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery

    11 slides