Neoplasms of Cartilage and Bone

Abstract

Benign cartilaginous neoplasms of the nose are surprisingly infrequent although hyaline cartilage constitutes the whole anterior part of its framework. Ringertz (1938) found only two examples in his series of 391 tumours of the nose and paranasal sinuses. Fu and Perzin (1974a) list seven chondromas in a review of 256 nasal neoplasms at their institution. Three of these were located in the nasal septum and four in the nasopharynx. On the other hand Kilby and Ambegaokar (1977), who reported a chondroma arising at the posterior edge of the nasal septum and another in the ethmoids and middle turbinate, found, on review of the literature, that 50% of reported tumours arose from the ethmoids and only 17% from the nasal septum.