Nasal cerebral heterotopic tissue (nasal glioma)‎

Abstract EN

We are reporting a rare case of nasal cerebral glioma in a months old Saudi female baby seen in the Otolaryngology department, King Fahd Hospital of the University, AlKhobar, Saudi Arabia.

rrhe clinical features, radiology and pathology were studied.

The clinical features were right nasal vestibular swelling and nasal obstructive symptoms.

Radiology showed that the swelling had no intracranial connection, rhe histopathology confirmed the presence of glial tissue.

Nasal glioma is a rare disease.

However nasal s^'ellings without intracranial connection could prove to be heterotopic glial tissue.