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 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.
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Ankara University Medical Faculty, Department of Radiology, Ibn-i Sina Hospital, Samanpazari 06100, Ankara, Turkey. cetinatasoy@hotmail.com
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D000328:Adult; D005147:Facial Bones; D005260:Female; D005359:Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005626:Frontal Sinus; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D009078:Mucocele / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012886:Skull; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*