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Mucous Retention Cysts and Frontal Ethmoidal Osteoma

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This is a patient who had frontal headaches.

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And on the CT scan extending from inferiorly,

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we come up through the ethmoid sinuses.

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We see a little mucus retention

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cyst in the sphenoid sinus.

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This is a non-expansile

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lesion that has smooth margins, mucus retention

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cyst, not a polyp, doesn't have any mass

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effect, doesn't have any remodeling of the bone.

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In addition, we see in the

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frontal sinus and ethmoid sinus

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a lesion here which has bone density, not

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really any soft tissue associated with it.

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Maybe some secondary sinus

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inflammation from the obstruction.

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And this would be our classic osteoma.

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Remember that frontal sinus osteomas, osteomas

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of the paranasal sinuses may be associated

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with Gardner syndrome and colonic polyps.

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Let's just take a quick look at this on the

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coronal scan so we have a little better

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definition of this as being both in the frontal

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sinus, as well as in the anterior ethmoid sinus.

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This is our frontal recess of drainage

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on the left side. On the right side,

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that area of drainage is likely opacified

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by the osteoma, and that's why we have

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some backup sinus inflammation in the

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frontal sinus, secondary to the osteoma.

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Faculty

David M Yousem, MD, MBA

Professor of Radiology, Vice Chairman and Associate Dean

Johns Hopkins University

Mahla Radmard, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Tags

Sinus

Sinonasal Cavity

Oncologic Imaging

Neuroradiology

Neoplastic

CT

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