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This was another child with a recurrent epistaxis.

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However, the patient demonstrated

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a purplish mass in the left nares.

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On the T2-weighted scan, we see a soft

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tissue mass, which is growing from the

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left nares into the tissue of the upper

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lip, and it has a component here, which is

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beyond the skin surface even. On the T1-weighted

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scan, again, the mass in the nasal cavity, and

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then as we go inferiorly, it's involving the

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upper lip, and it was purplish in coloration.

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Here we see that it shows avid contrast

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enhancement without large vessels.

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So given the clinical history, this is most

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likely going to be a vascular malformation, and of

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those vascular malformations, one that would be

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present in a teenager would be a venous vascular

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malformation, a low-flow vascular malformation.

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If this was an infant, we may

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consider the various types of

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true hemangioma, which may involute over the course of

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time, or those that are non-involuting hemangiomas.

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So depending upon the age of the patient,

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we could sort of guess that this is unlikely

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to be a true neoplasm or hemangioma, but

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instead was a venous vascular malformation.

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Faculty

David M Yousem, MD, MBA

Professor of Radiology, Vice Chairman and Associate Dean

Johns Hopkins University

Mahla Radmard, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Tags

Vascular

Sinus

Sinonasal Cavity

Oncologic Imaging

Neuroradiology

MRI

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