Title
Decrease in visual acute, hypertellorism, and exophthalms due to bilateral piomucocele
Other title
[Disminución de agudeza visual, hipertelorismo y exoftalmos debido a piomucocele bilateral]
Date Issued
01 November 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Medical Body of the Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo National Hospital
Abstract
The Piomucocele is the infection of a pre-existing mucocele. We present a 22-year-old man with decreased visual acuity, hypertelorism, and exophthalmos. He presented inferolateral proptosis and visual acuity 20/80 on the left side. No history of trauma, infection, polyps, or surgery. CT scan with images suggestive of bilateral mucocele with anterior orbital compression effect on the right side and posterior on the left side. The compressive effect of the ethmoidal and sphenoid pyomukocele on the left side produced compromise of the optic canal with decreased ipsilateral visual acuity. Endoscopic sinonasal surgery was performed with marsupialization and decompression, finding two well-defined anteroposterior pyomukoceles on the right side and one left pyomukocele. The evolution was favorable. This unusual presentation forces us to consider unsuspected ocular involvement, mainly in pyomukoceles that involve posterior paranasal sinuses.
Start page
390
End page
393
Volume
14
Issue
3
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Odontología, Cirugía oral, Medicina oral
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85122961185
Source
Revista del Cuerpo Medico Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo
ISSN of the container
22255109
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