INFECTED FRONTAL MUCOCELE WITH PROPTOSIS

Abstract

Frontal sinus mucoceles can present
with a multitude of different symptoms
including ophthalmic disturbances, even
though benign they have a tendency to
expand by eroding the surrounding bony
walls. They displace and destroy structures
by pressure and bony erosion.A 60
year old female with proptosis of the right
eye and headache with watering attended
the OPD. On investigation, she
was found to have isodense extraconal
lesion in the right orbit with erosion of
roof of orbit. She underwent surgery and
found to have infected mucocele presenting
as proptosis and skull erosion.