Chronic sinusitis-associated antrolith

An antrolith is a calcified mass found in the nasal cavity or sinus, usually maxillary, described in literature as a rare phenomenon. Its presenting symptoms are variable and include symptoms associated with chronic sinusitis. We describe a 66 year old man with chronic sinusitis who presented with f...

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Autores principales: Manning, Nyla, Wu, Patrick, Preis, Jana, Ojeda-Martinez, Hector, Chan, Michael
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Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232647/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30425925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00467
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author Manning, Nyla
Wu, Patrick
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description An antrolith is a calcified mass found in the nasal cavity or sinus, usually maxillary, described in literature as a rare phenomenon. Its presenting symptoms are variable and include symptoms associated with chronic sinusitis. We describe a 66 year old man with chronic sinusitis who presented with facial pain and epistaxis and upon further evaluation was found to have an antrolith of the left maxillary sinus.
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spelling pubmed-62326472018-11-13 Chronic sinusitis-associated antrolith Manning, Nyla Wu, Patrick Preis, Jana Ojeda-Martinez, Hector Chan, Michael IDCases Article An antrolith is a calcified mass found in the nasal cavity or sinus, usually maxillary, described in literature as a rare phenomenon. Its presenting symptoms are variable and include symptoms associated with chronic sinusitis. We describe a 66 year old man with chronic sinusitis who presented with facial pain and epistaxis and upon further evaluation was found to have an antrolith of the left maxillary sinus. Elsevier 2018-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6232647/ /pubmed/30425925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2018.e00467 Text en © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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