Silent sinus syndrome

Case contributed by Fakhry Mahmoud Ebouda , 15 Aug 2016
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Mostafa Elfeky, 16 Nov 2022
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 was changed:

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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Updates to Quizquestion Attributes

Answer was changed:
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.

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