AGGRESSIVE COURSE OF ANGIOFIBROMA IN AN HIV-POSITIVE PATIENT

We report nasopharyngeal angiofibroma in a 13 year old boy treated wit h embolization, surgical excision and radiotherapy, which recurred 13 years later. No features of sarcomatous transformation were found, but the tumor had a locally aggressive course, possibly due to the HIV-po sitivity of the patient who then died of AIDS. The relations between t he clinical course of the tumor and severe immunodeficiency are discus sed.