Frontal sinus mucopyocele in cystic fibrosis.
This report summarizes the treatment of two patients with cystic fibrosis and frontal sinus mucopyocele. The first patient, an 18-year-old boy, had a 1-year history of a proptosis of the left eye. The second patient, a 28-year-old woman, had a 3-month history of intermittent diplopia. In both cases, the frontal sinus mucocele was diagnosed by computed tomographic scans; both were successfully treated with an osteoplastic flap and fat obliteration of the frontal sinus. When a patient with cystic fibrosis presents with a history of unilateral proptosis, diplopia, or frontal headaches, a paranasal sinus mucocele should be suspected.
Levine
M R
MR
Division of Opthalmology, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.
Kim
Y D
YD
Witt
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003550:Cystic Fibrosis / Q000150:complications*; D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005626:Frontal Sinus / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009078:Mucocele / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D010254:Paranasal Sinus Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology; D013492:Suppuration; D014031:Tobramycin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D014031:Tobramycin