Giant mucocele secondary to cocaine abuse

Mucoceles are benign lesions originating in the paranasal sinuses. Presented here is a novel case of a giant frontoethmoidal mucocele extending into the orbit and causing proptosis. The etiology was chronic transnasal cocaine abuse leading to extensive scarring and distortion of the nasal anatomy.

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Autor principal: Maldjian, Catherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33425080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.12.025
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description Mucoceles are benign lesions originating in the paranasal sinuses. Presented here is a novel case of a giant frontoethmoidal mucocele extending into the orbit and causing proptosis. The etiology was chronic transnasal cocaine abuse leading to extensive scarring and distortion of the nasal anatomy.
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spelling pubmed-77798342021-01-08 Giant mucocele secondary to cocaine abuse Maldjian, Catherine Radiol Case Rep Case Report Mucoceles are benign lesions originating in the paranasal sinuses. Presented here is a novel case of a giant frontoethmoidal mucocele extending into the orbit and causing proptosis. The etiology was chronic transnasal cocaine abuse leading to extensive scarring and distortion of the nasal anatomy. Elsevier 2020-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7779834/ /pubmed/33425080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.12.025 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. 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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Giant mucocele secondary to cocaine abuse
title Giant mucocele secondary to cocaine abuse
title_full Giant mucocele secondary to cocaine abuse
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title_short Giant mucocele secondary to cocaine abuse
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7779834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33425080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.12.025
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