Endoscopic surgery for nasal and sinusal vascular tumours: about two cases of nasopharyngeal angiofibromas and one case of turbinate angioma.

Incomplete resection, technical difficulties and important bleeding are feared in endoscopic sinus surgery (E.S.S.). The authors report three cases of E.S.S. for vascular tumours: two angiofibromas and one angioma. Adjuvant treatments were sometimes used : embolization by angiography (one case), clip on the sphenopalatine artery (one case). However, in one case, E.S.S. alone was sufficient. Average blood loss was 500 cc. Total resection, good clinical evolution and no recurrence at 9 months are good arguments in favour of this technique.