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The role of CT scan in predicting complications in small ethmoidal osteomas Cover

The role of CT scan in predicting complications in small ethmoidal osteomas

Open Access
|Nov 2019

Abstract

Osteomas are slow-growing tumors of the paranasal sinuses, usually found in the frontal and ethmoidal sinus. In many cases, these tumors are discovered by chance or after an imagistic exam for a non-responsive to medical treatment headache. In asymptomatic tumors, conservative treatment is indicated, while in big tumors with complications the gold standard is surgical resection of the tumor. We present two cases of rather similar anterior ethmoidal osteomas in which the therapeutic management was decided according to the symptomatology of the patient and the imagistic CT exam. We decided different ways of treatment for the two cases based on the CT scan, which has a major role in predicting intraoperative complications during endoscopic sinus surgery.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjr-2019-0025 | Journal eISSN: 2393-3356 | Journal ISSN: 2069-6523
Language: English
Page range: 187 - 190
Submitted on: Sep 18, 2019
Accepted on: Sep 30, 2019
Published on: Nov 1, 2019
Published by: Romanian Rhinologic Society
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2019 Vlad Andrei Budu, Tatiana Decuseara, Silviu Crac, Alexandra Gheorghe, Alexandru Panfiloiu, Cristina Goanta, published by Romanian Rhinologic Society
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