TY - JOUR
T1 - Snuff-induced malignancy of the nasal vestibule
T2 - a case report
AU - Sreedharan, Suja
AU - Hegde, Mahesh Chandra
AU - Pai, Radha
AU - Rhodrigues, Shobha
AU - Kumar, Rajeev
AU - Rasheed, Anwar
PY - 2007/9/1
Y1 - 2007/9/1
N2 - The association between nasal snuff and malignancy is not well established. There is epidemiological evidence suggesting that oral tobacco when mixed with lime and betel leaves causes oral cancer in the Indian subcontinent. Similarly, snuff spiced with dried aloe has been reported to cause upper jaw malignancies in the Bantu tribes. The last reported case of nasal snuff causing cancer of the nose was described by John Hill in 1761. We describe here a case of a 69-year-old woman who developed a nasal vestibular malignancy after 30 years of snuff usage, and this, we believe, is the only reported case of nasal snuff causing cancer in the last 2 centuries.
AB - The association between nasal snuff and malignancy is not well established. There is epidemiological evidence suggesting that oral tobacco when mixed with lime and betel leaves causes oral cancer in the Indian subcontinent. Similarly, snuff spiced with dried aloe has been reported to cause upper jaw malignancies in the Bantu tribes. The last reported case of nasal snuff causing cancer of the nose was described by John Hill in 1761. We describe here a case of a 69-year-old woman who developed a nasal vestibular malignancy after 30 years of snuff usage, and this, we believe, is the only reported case of nasal snuff causing cancer in the last 2 centuries.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.amjoto.2006.10.008
DO - 10.1016/j.amjoto.2006.10.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 17826541
AN - SCOPUS:34548445091
SN - 0196-0709
VL - 28
SP - 353
EP - 356
JO - American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
JF - American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
IS - 5
ER -
