Frontal sinus osteoma and palpebral abscess: case report
Dispenza, C.; Saraniti, C.; Ferrara, S.; Martines, F.; Caramanna, C.; Salzano, F.A.
Revue de Laryngologie - Otologie - Rhinologie 126(1): 49-51
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-1334 PMID: 16080649 Document Number: 588659
Osteomas of the paranasal sinuses are slow-growing, benign tumours most frequently found in the frontal sinus with an incidence that varies from 47% to 80% of the cases; there are often no symptoms and they are diagnosed by chance during an x-ray examination. The symptoms are usually headaches and those secondary to ocular or neurological complications. The therapy to be preferred is surgery. The authors describe a case of frontal osteoma complicated by frontal sinusitis and palpebral abscess.