Downloads: 5 | Views: 143
Case Studies | Surgery | Indonesia | Volume 10 Issue 10, October 2021 | Popularity: 4.5 / 10
Giant Frontal Mucocele with Extensive Bone Destruction: Case Illustration
Dwiki Arya Dharma, David Prakasa, Made Priska Rusmana
Abstract: Mucoceles are epithelial - lined cavities in the paranasal sinuses that contain mucus. They develop due to scar tissue and sinus ostium obstruction, either from chronic sinusitis, trauma, or surgery. Frontal sinus mucoceles can present with many different symptoms including eye disorders. A case of giant frontal mucocele with extensive bone destruction that reappear after four years is reported. Surgery to remove the mucocele and reconstruction of the skull were perform, mucocele can cause bone destruction because these mucoceles have a tendency to develop by eroding the surrounding bone wall replacing and destroying the structure with pressure and bone resorption.
Keywords: Frontal mucocele, bone destruction, surgery
Edition: Volume 10 Issue 10, October 2021
Pages: 641 - 643
Make Sure to Disable the Pop-Up Blocker of Web Browser
Similar Articles
Downloads: 0
Informative Article, Surgery, Kenya, Volume 10 Issue 9, September 2021
Pages: 243 - 250Mwakio Patterson-Mwakio's Series General Surgery Article-Chest Trauma
Mwakio Patterson
Downloads: 0
Research Paper, Surgery, Morocco, Volume 10 Issue 11, November 2021
Pages: 99 - 102Surgical Treatment of a Recurrent Intracardiac Thrombosis Complicating Behcet's Disease
Noureddine Atmani, Salma Elmanir, Aniss Seghrouchni, Youssef Elbekkali, Younes Moutakiallah
Downloads: 0
Case Studies, Surgery, India, Volume 11 Issue 2, February 2022
Pages: 694 - 696Ureteral Endometriosis Masquerading As Urothelial Cancer
Narayani Kalnawat, N. B. D'souza, Devyani Mahajan, H. B. Tongaonkar
Downloads: 0
Case Studies, Surgery, Morocco, Volume 11 Issue 6, June 2022
Pages: 1325 - 1327Bowel Perforation in a Strangulated Hernia Caused by a Chicken Bone: Case Report
Mohammed Lamghari, Mohammed Bouzroud, El Mehdi Aboulfeth, Ahmed Bounaim
Downloads: 0
Case Studies, Surgery, India, Volume 11 Issue 8, August 2022
Pages: 841 - 843Lipomyelomeningocele: A Case Report
Dr. Vinay P. Solabannavar, Dr. Vijetha Vikram