Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis

Osteomas of paranasal sinuses are common benign tumors and are diagnosed incidentally. However, osteomas complicated by pneumocephalus with air fluid level presenting with progressive hemiparesis is rare. Here, we present a case report of a 22-year-old male who presented with left-sided progressive...

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Autores principales: Umredkar, Ashwini Bakde, Disawal, Amit, Anand, Aarti, Gaur, Prajwalit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Neuroimaging and Head & Neck
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385774/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28515584
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.202972
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description Osteomas of paranasal sinuses are common benign tumors and are diagnosed incidentally. However, osteomas complicated by pneumocephalus with air fluid level presenting with progressive hemiparesis is rare. Here, we present a case report of a 22-year-old male who presented with left-sided progressive hemiparesis with history of generalized headache since 2 years.
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spelling pubmed-53857742017-05-17 Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis Umredkar, Ashwini Bakde Disawal, Amit Anand, Aarti Gaur, Prajwalit Indian J Radiol Imaging Neuroimaging and Head & Neck Osteomas of paranasal sinuses are common benign tumors and are diagnosed incidentally. However, osteomas complicated by pneumocephalus with air fluid level presenting with progressive hemiparesis is rare. Here, we present a case report of a 22-year-old male who presented with left-sided progressive hemiparesis with history of generalized headache since 2 years. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5385774/ /pubmed/28515584 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-3026.202972 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Umredkar, Ashwini Bakde
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Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis
title Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis
title_full Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis
title_fullStr Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis
title_full_unstemmed Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis
title_short Frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: A rare cause of progressive hemiparesis
title_sort frontal sinus osteoma with pneumocephalus: a rare cause of progressive hemiparesis
topic Neuroimaging and Head & Neck
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385774/
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