Giant osteoma of the frontoethmoidal sinus associated with two cerebral abscesses.
A 36-year-old woman presented with severe frontal headache, fever, left palpebral swelling, and proptosis. Radiographic studies showed a giant frontoethmoidal osteoma, that extended intracranially into the frontal lobe and was associated with two abscesses, one within the lesion and the other in the right frontal lobe. The tumour was excised and the abscesses drained. The patient made a full recovery.
Panagiotopoulos
Vasilios
V
Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Patras, 26500 Rion of Patras, Greece. panagiotopoulos2000@yahoo.com
Tzortzidis
Fotios
F
Partheni
Melpomeni
M
Iliadis
Haralambos
H
Fratzoglou
Moshos
M
D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000382:microbiology*; D005005:Ethmoid Sinus / Q000473:pathology*; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000382:microbiology; D005626:Frontal Sinus / Q000473:pathology*; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D010016:Osteoma / Q000150:complications*; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed