Black box within the beauty

Abstract

Occupying a prime location in face, nasal cavity is the main route of entry of air into the body. Nasal lesions can have varied presentations ranging from simple inflammatory to even malignant tumours. The aim of this study is to find the incidence of nasal lesions along with their histopathological patterns and correlation with age-gender distribution and site of the lesion. The present study was done in the department of Pathology, MGMCRI, for a period of six months from January 2019 to June 2019 and included 58cases of nasal biopsies. Tissue was processed and studied as per standard operating procedures. Out of the 58 cases studied, 55.17% were inflammatory of which 28.13% were fungal infections. There were 37.93% benign lesions and 6.7% malignancies. Majority of the lesions were seen in the age group of 20-39 years, with male preponderance. The most common location involved was nasal cavity with allergic inflammatory polyp being the most common lesion. Although most of the nasal biopsies sent are inflammatory, secondary to infection or allergy, variety of benign and malignant lesions of nose are also common. Eventhough they can be suspected clinically confirmation can be done only by histopathological examination. Hence histopathology digs out the ‘black box within the beauty’ and remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of nasal lesions.