Frontal sinus mucocele: A rare complication of craniofacial fibrous dysplasia

We present plain radiographic, computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in a 25-year-old female patient with craniofacial fibrous dysplasia (FD). Although FD has a tendency to involve craniofacial bones in a unilateral fashion, the involvement was bilateral and extensive in...

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Published in:Clinical imaging 2001-11, Vol.25 (6), p.388-391
Main Authors: Atasoy, Çetin, Üstüner, Evren, Erden, İlhan, Akyar, Serdar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Computed tomography
Cranium
Facial Bones
Female
Fibrous dysplasia
Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic - complications
Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic - diagnosis
Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic - surgery
Follow-Up Studies
Frontal Sinus
Humans
Magnetic resonance imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods
Medical sciences
Mucocele
Mucocele - diagnosis
Mucocele - etiology
Mucocele - surgery
Non tumoral diseases
Otorhinolaryngology. Stomatology
Paranasal sinus
Sensitivity and Specificity
Skull
Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods
Upper respiratory tract, upper alimentary tract, paranasal sinuses, salivary glands: diseases, semeiology
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Summary:We present plain radiographic, computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in a 25-year-old female patient with craniofacial fibrous dysplasia (FD). Although FD has a tendency to involve craniofacial bones in a unilateral fashion, the involvement was bilateral and extensive in this case. An additional feature was the presence of a frontal sinus mucocele, presumably due to the involvement of the sinus recess by the dysplastic process. This complication of the craniofacial FD has been reported very infrequently in the literature.
ISSN:0899-7071
1873-4499
DOI:10.1016/S0899-7071(01)00320-5