title: An unusual foreign body in frontal sinus: silicone tube.
abstract: Foreign bodies in paranasal sinuses are very rare and more than half of them are encountered in maxillary sinus. Most of the foreign bodies are associated with maxillofacial trauma. Foreign body in the frontal sinus is even a rarer condition. Foreign bodies usually present with chronic symptoms and complications due to the delayed diagnosis. In this article, we report an unusual case of mucocele resulting from silicone nasolacrimal duct tube in right frontal sinus which was left or forgotten in nasal cavity after external dacryocystorhinostomy operation. The patient was treated surgically and her symptoms resolved after surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Faculty of Dicle University, 21300 Diyarbakır, Turkey. musaozbay@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Musa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Özbay
authors.forename: Ediz
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Yorgancılar
authors.forename: Vefa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kınış
authors.forename: Salih
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bakır
authors.forename: Ramazan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gün
authors.forename: Bülent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Agüloğlu
authors.forename: Faruk
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Meriç
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005626:Frontal Sinus / Q000473:pathology*; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009301:Nasolacrimal Duct / Q000473:pathology*; D012828:Silicones
chemical_list: D012828:Silicones