Open AccessGiant Post-Traumatic Frontoethmoid Osteoma: Diagnostic, Therapeutic and Reconstructive Approach
Author(s) -
Cátia Azevedo,
António Fontes Lima,
Miguel Afonso Filipe,
Nobelio Duarte,
Luís Dias,
Renata Marques
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2667-7466
DOI - 10.5152/tao.2020.4858
Subject(s) - osteoma , medicine , asymptomatic , deformity , frontal sinus , orbit (dynamics) , surgery , paranasal sinuses , anterior cranial fossa , sinus (botany) , skull , radiology , botany , engineering , biology , genus , aerospace engineering
Paranasal sinus osteomas are rare, slow-growing and benign lesions with potentially serious complications. They usually remain asymptomatic but when osteomas grow they can lead to local complications and cause evident aesthetic deformity due to the direct mass effect and in these situations, surgery is required. This is a report of a 30-year-old man with a rare giant post-traumatic osteoma that occupies the right nasal fossa, ethmoidal cells and frontal sinuses with extension into the right orbit.