Nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, nasopharynx

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Authors: Margaret S. Brandwein-Weber, M.D., Josephine K. Dermawan, M.D., Ph.D., Jesse Hart, D.O., Vladyslav Ilchenko, M.D., Jinping Lai, M.D., Ph.D., Kelly Magliocca, D.D.S., M.P.H., Rifat Mannan, M.B.B.S., M.D., Arun R. Napit, M.B.B.S., Nat Pernick, M.D., Laura O. Rabinowitz, M.D., Lisa Rooper, M.D., Abeer Salama, M.D., Jihong Sun, M.D., Wai Szeto, M.D., M.S., Abhimanyu Tushir, M.D., Bin Xu, M.D., Ph.D., Songyang Yuan, M.D., Ph.D.

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Table of contents

General:anatomy books grossing & features to report histology staging terminology staging-nasal cavity & sinuses staging-nasopharynx WHO classification

Infectious lesions:allergic fungal sinusitis fungal ball invasive fungal sinusitis rhinosclerosis rhinosporidiosis

Inflammatory lesions:allergic rhinosinusitis antrochoanal polyps chronic rhinosinusitis inflammatory sinonasal polyp

Other nonneoplastic lesions:glial heterotopia nasal chondromesenchymal hamartoma respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma seromucinous hamartoma

Benign tumors:nasopharyngeal angiofibroma nasopharyngeal dermoid / hairy polyp (pending) psammomatoid ossifying fibroma salivary gland anlage tumor sinonasal meningioma sinonasal papilloma

Carcinoma of nasopharynx:nasopharyngeal carcinoma low grade nasopharyngeal papillary adenocarcinoma

Sinonasal carcinoma:sinonasal carcinoma-general HPV related multiphenotypic sinonasal carcinoma neuroendocrine carcinoma, including small cell carcinoma NUT carcinoma sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma sinonasal lymphoepithelial carcinoma (pending) SWI / SNF complex deficient sinonasal carcinoma squamous cell carcinoma teratocarcinosarcoma

Sinonasal adenocarcinoma:adenocarcinoma-general intestinal type nonintestinal type

Other malignant tumors:ademantinomatous craniopharyngioma (pending) biphenotypic sinonasal sarcoma chordoma olfactory neuroblastoma sinonasal glomangiopericytoma