title: [17 cases of mucosal antral cyst with main symptoms of eye pain].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To draw the attention to mucosal antral cyst, thus reduce the probability of missed diagnosis and missed treatment by retrospectively analyzing 17 cases of eye pain patients with no obvious nasal symptoms in our department from January 2003 to September 2011.
  
  
  METHODS
  All patients were performed ophthalmologic examination including eye position, eyesight, refraction, visual field, intraocular pressure and fundus examination, and the results showed that all of them had no eye disease. After excluding the deviation of nasal septum, concha bullosa and Haller gas room, CT scanning of paranasal sinus showed the maxillary sinus cyst. The patients were operated by nasal endoscope through joint path of middle meatus or inferior meatus and given antibiotics after operation. The nasal cavity packing was removed 24 hours postoperatively and the patients were discharged from hospital a week later. All the patients continued using intranasal corticosteroids and were followed up for half a year to observe whether the eye pain disappeared or recurred, when various processing was given to the surgical cavity with the help of nasal endoscope.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the 17 cases, 14 cases of eye pain disappeared after the operation, and the remaining 3 patients got symptomatic relief without recurrence during the follow-up period.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mucosal antral cyst can cause eye pain. After excluding eye disease, once we diagnosed patients for mucosal antral cyst and the routine application of corticosteroids treatment was proved to be invalid, we should take operation treatment as early as possible, regardless of the size and location of the cysts.
authors.forename: Zhiyu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiaomin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hao
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D058447:Eye Pain / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008443:Maxillary Sinus; D008875:Middle Aged; D009092:Mucous Membrane; D010254:Paranasal Sinus Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult