CASE REPORT
Bilateral Nasal Polyps Originating From Olfactory Cleft
 
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Istanbul Medipol University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey
 
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Canakkale 18 March University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Canakkale, Turkey
 
 
Publication date: 2015-07-15
 
 
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Kadir Cagdas Kazıkdas   

Canakkale 18 March University, Faculty of Medicine,Department of Neurosurgery, Canakkale-Turkey
 
 
Eur J Gen Med 2015;12(3):271-272
 
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Nasal polyps generally have similar symptom, they generally originate from ethmoid infundibulum, mucosal contact areas of the uncinate process and middle turbinate. However nasal polyps rarely arise from different and unexpected locations in the nasal cavity such as septum, cribriform plate and olfactory cleft. In this article, we report 63 years old men, had a history of nasal obstruction and loss of smell for six years, diagnosed with bilaterally olfactory cleft originated nasal polyps, which is a very rare site of origin.
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