<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></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.

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

“Prof. Dr. D. Hociota” Institute of Phono-Audiology and Functional Surgery

“Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Romanian Journal of Rhinology

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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...

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

Published Online: Nov 01, 2019

Page range: 187 - 190

Received: Sep 18, 2019

Accepted: Sep 30, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjr-2019-0025

Keywords
ethmoidal osteoma, FESS, frontal recess

© 2019 Vlad Andrei Budu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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

Published Online: Nov 01, 2019

Page range: 187 - 190

Received: Sep 18, 2019

Accepted: Sep 30, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjr-2019-0025

Keywordsethmoidal osteoma, FESS, frontal recess

© 2019 Vlad Andrei Budu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
ethmoidal osteoma, FESS, frontal recess