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PROPTOSIS SECONDARY TO FRONTOETHMOIDAL MUCOCELE - A CASE REPORT

DEEPA RANJANI N

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Mucocele is an epithelial-lined, mucous containing sac completely filling the sinus and capable of expansion. Patients more commonly present with ophthalmic complaints in frontoethmoidal mucocele. The clinical, radiological histopathological features of a patient with frontoethmoidal mucocele who presented in our out-patient department has been described along with the details of the treatment done for her.

 


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