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Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinus Cancer

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Maxillary cancers are most common (70%). Incidence higher in Japan and South Africa. More common in males (4:1). Ohngren’s line runs from the medial canthus to the angle of the mandible. Histology: most common is SCC. Adenoid cystic, esthesioneuroblastoma, plasmacytoma, lymphoma, melanoma, and sarcoma also seen. Lymphatic drainage of maxillary antrum to submandibular, parotid, jugulodigastric, retropharyngeal, and jugular nodes. See Chap. 12 for more information on esthesioneuroblastoma.

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Acknowledgment

We thank Dr. M. Kara Bucci for her contribution to this chapter in the first edition.

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  1. Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Chien Peter Chen MD & Sue S. Yom MD

  2. Radiation Oncology, Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, USA

    Brian Missett MD

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  1. Div. Radiation Oncology, Oregon Clinic, SW. Barnes Rd. 9205, Portland, 97225, Oregon, USA

    Eric K. Hansen

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, Divisadero Street, Suite H-1031 1600, San Francisco, 94143, California, USA

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Chen, C.P., Missett, B., Yom, S.S. (2010). Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinus Cancer. In: Hansen, E., Roach, M. (eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Radiation Oncology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92988-0_6

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