Korean J Otolaryngol-Head Neck Surg.
1999 Feb;42(2):242-244.
A Case of Pneumocele in the Ethmoid Sinus
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, College of Medicine, Inha University, Inchon, Korea.
Abstract
- Pneumocele is the pathologic expansion of an air-containing paranasal sinus that causes thinning of the bony sinus walls and displacement of nearby structures. This abnormality probably results from a physiological block in the rapid equilibration of intrasinus air pressure through the major sinus ostium and as a result of some abnormality producing a one-way valvular mechanism. A 41-year-old man had complained of headache, diplopia and periorbital pain on left side which aggravated after nose blowing. A computed tomographic scan showed a hyperlucent, expanded left ethmoid sinus. We treated the condition by endoscopic marsupialization of the anterior ethmoid sinus. Six months later, headache and periorbital pain have subsided, but diplopia has remained.
