Pneumocephalus associated with a frontoethmoidal osteoma.
A 51-year-old man complained of a headache of 2-months duration. Computerized tomography revealed pneumocephalus and an osteoma at the confluence of the frontal and ethmoid sinuses on the right. Craniotomy confirmed an osteoma with a spur as the cause of the pneumocephalus.
Jackson
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Bell
K A
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D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D005005:Ethmoid Sinus; D005626:Frontal Sinus; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010016:Osteoma / Q000150:complications*; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D011007:Pneumocephalus / Q000209:etiology*