Mukocele (piocele) of the frontal sinus
Mukocele (piocele) of the frontal sinus is a cystic enlargement of the paranasal sinuses. Closure of the outlet hole is most often due to trauma, less often a tumor, a highly located curvature of the nasal septum. The accumulated contents in the bosom leads to thinning and stretching of the bone walls; It is more often mucous, less often purulent.
Symptoms, course. The disease is asymptomatic at first; In some cases there is a progressive headache mainly in the forehead. When the frontal sinus is affected, the eyeball is shifted downward and outward, with the mucocele of the latticular sinus - forward and outward, and with the defeat of the main sinus - forward. Then develop lacrimation, atrophy of the optic disc, sometimes ulceration of the cornea. Skin over the tumor is not changed. With pressure, a parchment crunch is heard. With a diagnostic purpose, diaphanoscopy, radiography is used.
Treatment is surgical.
- Diseases of the ear, throat, nose
- Sepsis otogenic
- Gray cork
- Cynusitis
- Scleroma
- Adhesive (adhesive) otitis media
- Adenoids
- Angina
- Antrite
- Atresia and synechia of the nasal cavity
- Aerosynexitis
- Barotrauma
- Sinusitis acute
- Sinusitis chronic
- Nasal septal hematoma
- Hypertrophy of palatine tonsils
- Aperture of the larynx
- Eustachyte
- Hyopharyngeal abscess
- Foreign bodies of bronchi
- Foreign bodies of pharynx
- Foreign bodies of the larynx
- Foreign bodies of the nose
- Foreign bodies of the trachea and bronchi
- Foreign body of the ear
- Curvature of nasal septum
- Bleeding nose
- Labyrinthite
- Laryngitis
- Laryngitis chronic
- Laryngospasm
- Mastoiditis acute
- Meniere's disease
- Mechanical ear trauma
- Otitis externa
- Coryza (rhinitis)
- Rhinitis vasomotor, allergic
- Coryza acute in children of early (breast) age
- Cochlear neuritis
- Gunshot wounds of the paranasal sinuses
- Throat burns
- Ozena (smelly cold)
- Coryza
- Acute otitis media
- Othematoma (otematoma)
- Laryngeal edema
- Otitis
- Otomycosis
- Otosclerosis (otoplasmosis)
- Paresis and paralysis of the larynx
- Polyps of the nose
- Stenosis of larynx
- Stridor congenital
- Sphenoiditis
- Tonsillitis chronic
- Injury of pharynx
- Injury of larynx
- Injury of the nose and its paranasal sinuses
- Laryngeal tuberculosis
- Pharyngitis
- Pharyngitis acute
- Pharyngitis chronic
- Pharyngomycosis
- Fibroma of the nasopharynx
- Frontite
- Furuncle of the nasal vestibule
- Chronic etmoiditis
- Chronic atrophic rhinitis
- Chronic hypertrophic rhinitis
- Chronic suppurative otitis media
- Chronic catarrhal (simple) cold
- Exudative otitis media
- Etmoiditis
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