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KMID : 0377619640060010063
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1964 Volume.6 No. 1 p.63 ~ p.66
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A Case of an Enormous Frontal Sinus Pyocele
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曺重煥/Cho, Jung Hwan
朴泓鎭/成昌燮/Pak, Hong Jin/Sung, Chang Sup
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Abstract
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A case of an enormous frontal sinus pyocele (accompanied with septum defect and fistula formation) with right chronic maxillary sinusitis and ethmoiditis is reported with a review of literatures.
The patient was a farmer, aged 53, who complained of right exophthalmus, a swelling that occured on the superior portion of right inner canthus, rhinorrhoea and anosmia.
After the Killian´ s operation. procedure, the patient made an uneventful recovery. Macro, and Microscopic findings of this pyocele were as follows :
1. The pyocele was filled with a large cyst containing 50cc of thick muco-purulent secretion showed weak acid reaction.
2. It was confirmed that the septum was almost defected.
3. The microscopic examination of the purulent secretion revealed; cholesterin crystal, destroyed leucocytes, staphylococci aureus, and pneumococci.
4. Histologic examination of the wall of this pyocele revealed; the distended, catarrhal, and mu.co-periosteal lining of the sinus throughout.
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