Inflammatory reaction to foreign body (amalgam) in the maxillary sinus misdiagnosed as an ethmoid tumor.
A patient with chronic unilateral maxillary sinusitis caused by a foreign body (dental amalgam) and mistaken diagnosis of extensive ethmoid neoplasm is presented. The imitation of tumour symptoms was due to a long presence of foreign body in the maxillary sinus and chronic inflammation of maxillary, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.
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Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. darkom@kbd.hr
Cabov
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Kobler
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Bumber
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D000792:Angiography; D017536:Carotid Artery, Common / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003723:Dental Amalgam; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005005:Ethmoid Sinus; D005260:Female; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015523:Maxillary Sinusitis / Q000209:etiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis
D003723:Dental Amalgam