Sinonasal intestinal-type adenocarcinoma involvement of the paranasal sinuses.

نویسندگان

  • Evelyn M L Sklar
  • Jose A Pizarro
چکیده

We present a patient with a biopsy-proved sinonasal intestinal-type adenocarcinoma who presented with moderate confusion. He was found to have bifrontal hemorrhages, which to our knowledge has not been previously described in the literature for this entity. Intestinal-type adenocarcinoma should be in the differential diagnosis of aggressive lesions in the base of the skull with intracranial spread from the paranasal sinuses.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology

دوره 24 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003