A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor

BACKGROUND: Pott’s puffy tumor (PPT) is a rare and potentially deadly complication of frontal sinusitis consisting of subperiosteal abscess and osteomyelitis of the frontal bone. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 9-year-old boy who presented with fever and soft tissue swelling of the forehe...

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Autores principales: Amstrup, Jesper, Penning, Lasse Wedege, Hansen, Jonas Kjeldbjerg, Brix, Ninna, Andersen, Graziella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10276463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37328772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04117-8
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author Amstrup, Jesper
Penning, Lasse Wedege
Hansen, Jonas Kjeldbjerg
Brix, Ninna
Andersen, Graziella
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description BACKGROUND: Pott’s puffy tumor (PPT) is a rare and potentially deadly complication of frontal sinusitis consisting of subperiosteal abscess and osteomyelitis of the frontal bone. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 9-year-old boy who presented with fever and soft tissue swelling of the forehead. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) depicted an abscess in the subcutaneous tissue frontally and an epidural empyema, while a cranial computed tomography (CT) scan revealed bone erosion as a sign of osteomyelitis. The patient was treated accordingly. CONCLUSIONS: This rare condition is essential to keep in mind as it needs a multidisciplinary approach and relevant imaging to start proper treatment and thus decrease the risk of intracranial complications.
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spelling pubmed-102764632023-06-18 A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor Amstrup, Jesper Penning, Lasse Wedege Hansen, Jonas Kjeldbjerg Brix, Ninna Andersen, Graziella BMC Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Pott’s puffy tumor (PPT) is a rare and potentially deadly complication of frontal sinusitis consisting of subperiosteal abscess and osteomyelitis of the frontal bone. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 9-year-old boy who presented with fever and soft tissue swelling of the forehead. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) depicted an abscess in the subcutaneous tissue frontally and an epidural empyema, while a cranial computed tomography (CT) scan revealed bone erosion as a sign of osteomyelitis. The patient was treated accordingly. CONCLUSIONS: This rare condition is essential to keep in mind as it needs a multidisciplinary approach and relevant imaging to start proper treatment and thus decrease the risk of intracranial complications. BioMed Central 2023-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10276463/ /pubmed/37328772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04117-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Case Report
Amstrup, Jesper
Penning, Lasse Wedege
Hansen, Jonas Kjeldbjerg
Brix, Ninna
Andersen, Graziella
A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor
title A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor
title_full A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor
title_fullStr A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor
title_full_unstemmed A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor
title_short A 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric Pott’s puffy tumor
title_sort 9-year-old boy with a nonmalignant forehead tumor – a rare case of pediatric pott’s puffy tumor
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10276463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37328772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-023-04117-8
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