Lung adenocarcinoma metastasis to frontal sinus mimicking Pott's puffy tumor.
Metastasis of the lung adenocarcinoma to the paranasal sinuses is a rare clinical entity. We present a 75-year-old male patient who presented with swelling of the forehead and left upper eyelid with proptosis in left eye due to metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma. It appears as a puffy swelling of the forehead like a Pott's puffy tumor. Pott's puffy tumor is a subperiostal abscess of the frontal bone associated with osteomyelitis and usually occurs as a complication of sinusitis or trauma.
From the *Departments of Neurosurgery and †Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.
Ender
E
Koktekir
Bengu Ekinci
BE
Koktekir
Fahri
F
Recber
Gokhan
G
Akdemir
D000038:Abscess / Q000175:diagnosis; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004487:Edema / Q000175:diagnosis; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D005546:Forehead / Q000473:pathology; D005626:Frontal Sinus / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D059369:Pott Puffy Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods