Silent sinus syndrome: A missed entity?

Silent sinus syndrome is a rare anomaly caused due to hypoventilation in the maxillary sinus. This is mostly unilateral and asymptomatic in majority of patients. Some patients develop complications due to this such as hypoglobus and enophthalmos. The usual age of occurrence is after 30 years. We rep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Nivean, Pratheeba Devi, Sayee, T. S. Mohammed, Nivean, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10062103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37007260
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ojo.ojo_332_21
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Sumario:Silent sinus syndrome is a rare anomaly caused due to hypoventilation in the maxillary sinus. This is mostly unilateral and asymptomatic in majority of patients. Some patients develop complications due to this such as hypoglobus and enophthalmos. The usual age of occurrence is after 30 years. We report this unique case as our patient was very young to develop this.

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