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A 61-year-old woman presented with a seven-month history of recurrent right epistaxis and increasing nasal obstruction. A nasal endoscopy revealed a fleshy right nasal poly. CT and MRI scans of the paranasal sinuses were requested. A diagnostic nasal endoscopy and biopsy under general anaesthesia confirmed the lesion to be a sino-nasal undifferentiated carcinoma. The patient underwent endoscopic excision and postoperaive radiotherapy. She remains free of disease 7 years after treatment.
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Khalil, H.S. (2021). Sino-Nasal Undifferentiated Carcinoma. In: Stavrakas, M., Khalil, H.S. (eds) Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66865-5_39
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