Lung adenocarcinoma metastasis to frontal sinus mimicking Pott's puffy tumor

Metastasis of the lung adenocarcinoma to the paranasal sinuses is a rare clinical entity. We present a 75-year-old male patient who presented with swelling of the forehead and left upper eyelid with proptosis in left eye due to metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma. It appears as a puffy swelling of t...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2013-11, Vol.24 (6), p.e538-e539
Hauptverfasser: Koktekir, Ender, Koktekir, Bengu Ekinci, Recber, Fahri, Akdemir, Gokhan
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Zusammenfassung:Metastasis of the lung adenocarcinoma to the paranasal sinuses is a rare clinical entity. We present a 75-year-old male patient who presented with swelling of the forehead and left upper eyelid with proptosis in left eye due to metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma. It appears as a puffy swelling of the forehead like a Pott's puffy tumor. Pott's puffy tumor is a subperiostal abscess of the frontal bone associated with osteomyelitis and usually occurs as a complication of sinusitis or trauma.
ISSN:1049-2275
1536-3732
DOI:10.1097/SCS.0b013e318285d98a