CASE
HISTORY / CLINIC:
20-year-old patient with edematous upper and lower eyelids with conjunctival
injection. Lids apear very red, openning of the eyes is almost impossible. Patient
suffers from a severe cold for two weeks now.
FINDINGS:
The maxillary
sinus and the ethmoidal
cells on the left appear almost completely radio-opaque in the coronal
image at bony window (upper picture). The coronal image at soft-tissue window
(lower image) also demonstrates a of
soft-tissue opacity in the left orbita, bordering on the lamina
papyracea of the left orbita. Displacement of the medial
rectus muscle.
DIAGNOSIS:
Sinusitis involving orbital cavity.
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS:
Mass lesion in the ethmoidal cells near the orbita.
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