Frontal sinus mucocele with intracranial and intraorbital extension.
BACKGROUND
Frontal sinus mucoceles can present with a multitude of different symptoms including ophthalmic disturbances. Even benign, they have a tendency to expand by eroding the surrounding bony walls that displaces and destroys structures by pressure and bony resorption.


METHODS
A 32-year-old man with diplopia, proptosis of the right eye and headache was presented. The diagnosis was frontal sinus mucocele with intracranial and intraorbital extension. Possible clinical manifestations of mucoceles, diagnostic imaging techniques and treatment used are discussed.


CONCLUSIONS
Frontal mucoceles are benign and curable, early recognition and management of them is of paramount importance, because they can cause local, orbital or intracranial complications.
Peral Cagigal
Beatriz
B
Servicio Regional de Cirugía Oral y Maxilofacial, Hospital Universitario del Río Hortega, Valladolid, España. beaperal77@yahoo.es
Barrientos Lezcano
Javier
J
Floriano Blanco
Raúl
R
García Cantera
José Miguel
JM
Sánchez Cuéllar
Luis Antonio
LA
Verrier Hernández
Alberto
A
D000328:Adult; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005626:Frontal Sinus; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009078:Mucocele / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D010254:Paranasal Sinus Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery