Hairy Polyp in Nasal Vestibule

Hun Kim Do; Seong Park Kook; Bomi Kim

doi:10.18787/jr.2015.22.2.121

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Do, Kook, and Kim: Hairy Polyp in Nasal Vestibule

Case Report

J Rhinol 2015;22(2):121-122.

Published online: 10 January 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18787/jr.2015.22.2.121

Hairy Polyp in Nasal Vestibule

Hun Kim Do, MD¹, Seong Park Kook, MD, PhD^1,, Bomi Kim, MD²

¹ Departments of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

² Pathology, Inje University, College of Medicine, Busan Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea

Address for correspondence: Seong Kook Park, MD, PhD, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Inje University, College of Medicine, Busan Paik Hospital, 75 Bokji-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 47392, Korea Tel: +82-51-890-6376, Fax: +82-51-892-3831, E-mail: sinus4@paik.ac.kr

Received 9 April 2015 Revised 24 June 2015 Accepted 26 August 2015

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Hairy polyps are rare congenital benign masses of the head and neck. They mainly occur in the nasopharynx and oropharynx. This paper reports a 12-month-old female patient who had a 0.5-cm sausage-shaped mass in the left nasal vestibule with nasal obstruction and habitual nose-picking. This lesion was surgically removed with no complications under monitored anesthesia. There was no evidence of recurrence through 24 months. To the best our knowledge, this is the first English literature report of a patient with a hairy polyp arising from a nasal vestibule.

Keywords: Hairy polyp, Nasal vestibule.

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Fig. 1.

Endoscopic fingings of nasal vestibule. A 0.5-cm sausage-shaped mass was observed in the left nasal vestibule. This mass was gray, pedunculated, rubbery and covered with skin.

Fig. 2.

Histopathological findings consistent with a hairy polyp. H&E stain shows the polypoid lesion was lined by benign squamous epithelium (×40). It contains skin adnexa including hair follicles (arrow head).

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