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Giant frontal pyomucocele

Salim Yüce
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
Mansur Doğan
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
İsmail Önder Uysal
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
Ayhan Dursun
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
İsmail Salk
Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
Emine Elif Altuntaş
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey
Received: 11 September 2024
Published: 03 February 2012

Abstract

Giant mucoceles of the frontal sinus are rare but their recognition is important in the differential diagnosis of proptosis and fronto-orbital lesions. We describe a patient with frontal giant mucocele with intracranial as well as orbit and ethmoid sinus involvement. A 53-year-old male was admitted with headache, right exophthalmos and ophthalmoplegia. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a giant frontal sinus mucocele with extension into the left anterior cranial fossa and orbit. The mucocele was treated with a transcranial and endoscopic transnasal approach.

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