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Ethmoid mucocoele

Case contributed by Dalia Ibrahim
Diagnosis almost certain

Presentation

Outward displacement of the right orbit.

Patient Data

Age: 55 years
Gender: Female
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Expansion of the right anterior ethmoid air cells by high density contents with thinned bony boundaries and eroded lamina papyrcea, associated soft part are seen occupying the right nasal cavity and right orbit compressing the right medial rectus and right globe laterally.

Right maxillary, sphenoid and left ethmoid sinusitis. 

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