Inflammatory reaction to foreign body (amalgam) in the maxillary sinus misdiagnosed as an ethmoid tumor

Dentomaxillofac Radiol. 2006 Jul;35(4):303-6. doi: 10.1259/dmfr/42499904.

Abstract

A patient with chronic unilateral maxillary sinusitis caused by a foreign body (dental amalgam) and mistaken diagnosis of extensive ethmoid neoplasm is presented. The imitation of tumour symptoms was due to a long presence of foreign body in the maxillary sinus and chronic inflammation of maxillary, ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angiography
  • Carotid Artery, Common / diagnostic imaging
  • Dental Amalgam*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Ethmoid Sinus
  • Female
  • Foreign Bodies / complications
  • Foreign Bodies / diagnostic imaging*
  • Foreign-Body Reaction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Foreign-Body Reaction / etiology
  • Humans
  • Maxillary Sinus / diagnostic imaging*
  • Maxillary Sinusitis / etiology
  • Middle Aged
  • Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / diagnosis

Substances

  • Dental Amalgam