Silent sinus syndrome
Diagnosis certain
Disclosures
- updated 11 May 2022:
Nothing to disclose
Updates to Case Attributes
Age
changed from 44 years to 45 years.
Updates to Study Attributes
Findings
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The right maxillary sinus is small in size, atelectatic and totally opacified by pathological soft tissue with obliteration of the right ostiomeatal complex, the uncinate process is superiorly and laterally displaced in direct contact with inferomedial wall of the right orbit. Slight inferior bowing of the right orbital floor, lateral displacement of the right middle and inferior turbinates. Mild mucosal lining thickening of the ethmoid air cells and right sphenoid sinus compartment.
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Answer
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Congenital maxillary sinus hypoplasia; post traumatic-traumatic maxillary sinus deformity; inferior orbital decompression; mucocoelemucocele; expansion of sinus due to build up of secretions; chronic sinusitis with mucoperiosteal thickening.