Items tagged “paranasal sinuses”

The nasal passage and paranasal sinuses (collectively sinonasal) plays host to a number of diseases and conditions, which can be collectively termed sinonasal disease. One way of classifying separate entities is as follows: inflammatory and infective conditions sinusitis acute sinusitis pott...

Acute invasive fungal sinusitis is the most aggressive form of fungal sinusitis. It is seen particularly in immunocompromised patients and is the source of significant morbidity and mortality. It should be distinguished from the other two forms of invasive fungal sinusitis, chronic invasive fung...

Fungal sinusitis is a collective term referring to a number of entities, which can be divided into two groups, depending on the presence of fungal hyphae within or beyond the mucosa 1: non-invasive: hyphae do not invade the mucosa allergic fungal sinusitis sinus fungal mycetoma invasive: hyp...

The silent sinus syndrome represents maxillary sinus atelectasis that results in painless enophthalmos, hypoglobus and facial asymmetry 1-3. Some authors restrict the term to patients with no history of sinusitis, trauma or surgery 2. Epidemiology Silent sinus syndrome usually presents in the ...

Osteoma of the paranasal sinuses is a common benign tumor, usually found incidentally. Epidemiology Osteomas are commonly found in patients undergoing imaging of the sinuses, appearing in up to 3% of CT examinations of the paranasal sinuses 1. They are most frequently diagnosed in 20-50 years ...

Paranasal sinus mucoceles (or mucocoeles) represent complete opacification of one or more paranasal sinuses by mucus, often associated with bony expansion due to obstruction of the nasal sinus drainage. Clinical presentation Clinical presentation depends on two factors: location and direction...

Inverted papillomas are a type of Schneiderian papilloma, representing an uncommon sinonasal tumor that mostly affects middle-aged men. On imaging, they classically demonstrate a convoluted cerebriform pattern on seen on both T2 and contrast-enhanced T1 weighted MRI images. Terminology  The t...