Orbital Metastasis of Breast Cancer Mimicking Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis
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Orbital Metastasis of Breast Cancer Mimicking Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis
Introduction. A range of traumatic, vascular, inflammatory, infectious, and neoplastic processes can affect the orbit and its structures. In the area of otolaryngology, the rhino-orbital-cerebral involvement of invasive fungal rhinosinusitis can affect the orbit, which may look like initially a rhinosinusitis or even mimic malignancy. Case Presentation. Female patient, 32 years old, with headac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Otolaryngology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2090-6765,2090-6773
DOI: 10.1155/2016/2913241