Extramedullary plasmacytoma as an exceptional location in frontal sinus.

نویسندگان

  • Beatriz Ágreda Moreno
  • Ángel Urpegui García
  • Andrés López Vázquez
  • Héctor Vallés Varela
چکیده

We present the case of a 64-year-old woman who came to Emergency Services with a left frontal mass that was painful when palpated. The mass had a history of 3 days, lacking affectation of ocular motility and nasal symptoms. With the diagnostic suspicion of frontal mucocele, she was admitted to begin antibiotic treatment. In the CT performed, the image showed mainly left frontal occupation with notable bone erosion, along with disruption of the diploic inner table and extension towards ethmoid cells and left orbit (Fig. 1). Faced with the tumour size and aggressiveness, we chose to perform surgery using an external frontal approach; we found a friable bluish-grey tumour mass, affecting both the inner and external tables of the frontal bone, and which was fistulised towards the left orbit (Fig. 2). The apparently unaffected dura mater was seen through the bone

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Acta otorrinolaringologica espanola

دوره 64 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013