CASE HISTORY / CLINIC:
Patient with severely impaired nasal breathing
for years. Has had many opreations of the paranasal sinuses.


FINDINGS:
The coronal CT scan (bony window) without contrast application demonstrates a roundish bony structure on the right side of the nasal cavity close to the right orbital cone. The entire nasal cavity and the ethmoidal sinus demonstrate a hypodense opacity.


DIAGNOSIS:
Osteoma of the right nasal cavity. Nasal polyp.

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS:
Other bony masses.



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