Post-Traumatic Pneumocele of the Frontal Sinus

A pneumocele is an abnormal dilatation of a paranasal sinus, most commonly affecting the frontal sinus. Although the etiology of pneumocele is not entirely known, several causative factors have been suggested including trauma, surgery, tumor and infection. We report here a case of post-traumatic pne...

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Autores principales: Karadag, Demet, Calisir, Cuneyt, Adapinar, Baki
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Radiological Society 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18682678
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2008.9.4.379
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author Karadag, Demet
Calisir, Cuneyt
Adapinar, Baki
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description A pneumocele is an abnormal dilatation of a paranasal sinus, most commonly affecting the frontal sinus. Although the etiology of pneumocele is not entirely known, several causative factors have been suggested including trauma, surgery, tumor and infection. We report here a case of post-traumatic pneumocele of the frontal sinus following a head trauma.
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spelling pubmed-26272742009-02-17 Post-Traumatic Pneumocele of the Frontal Sinus Karadag, Demet Calisir, Cuneyt Adapinar, Baki Korean J Radiol Case Report A pneumocele is an abnormal dilatation of a paranasal sinus, most commonly affecting the frontal sinus. Although the etiology of pneumocele is not entirely known, several causative factors have been suggested including trauma, surgery, tumor and infection. We report here a case of post-traumatic pneumocele of the frontal sinus following a head trauma. The Korean Radiological Society 2008-08 2008-08-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2627274/ /pubmed/18682678 http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2008.9.4.379 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Korean Radiological Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Karadag, Demet
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Post-Traumatic Pneumocele of the Frontal Sinus
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title_short Post-Traumatic Pneumocele of the Frontal Sinus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18682678
http://dx.doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2008.9.4.379
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