ABSTRACT
Presentamos el caso de un paciente con carcinoma basocelular retroauricular de larga evolución y amplia extensión a pabellón auricular, conducto auditivo externo, oído medio, mastoides, llegando hasta temporal y hueso occipital, considerando esta patología inusual en nuestro medio. Aportamos el tratamiento quirúrgico realizado con un colgajo miocutáneo para reconstruir la zona (AU)
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Male , Middle Aged , Humans , Carcinoma, Basal Cell/surgery , Carcinoma, Basal Cell/complications , Carcinoma, Basal Cell/diagnosis , Carcinoma, Basal Cell/etiology , Surgical Flaps/methods , Surgical Flaps , Tomography, X-Ray Computed/methods , Ear Neoplasms/surgery , Ear Neoplasms/complications , Ear Neoplasms/diagnosis , Ear Neoplasms/etiology , Diagnosis, Differential , Nevus, Pigmented/surgery , Nevus, Pigmented/complications , Nevus, Pigmented/diagnosis , Nevus, Pigmented/etiology , Ear, Middle/surgery , Ear, Middle/pathology , Temporal Bone/surgery , Temporal Bone/pathology , Occipital Bone/surgery , Occipital Bone/pathology , Skin Neoplasms/complications , Skin Neoplasms/diagnosisABSTRACT
We present a carrier of a mucocele ethmofrontal patient's case that relapsed after surgical treatments and that, subsequently, it caused an intense bilateral and amaurosis. This was attributed to the bilateral atrophy of the optician nerve secondary to the evolution of the own mucocele. It discussed the frequency of this kind of complications in the bibliographical revision made.
Subject(s)
Blindness/etiology , Ethmoid Sinus , Frontal Sinus , Mucocele/complications , Aged , Blindness/pathology , Humans , Male , Paranasal Sinus Diseases/complications , Paranasal Sinus Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Paranasal Sinus Diseases/surgery , RadiographyABSTRACT
A primary lymphoma of the orbit developed at par with a mucocele of the sinus (perhaps originated by the tumor) made very difficult the diagnosis of the patient. About this case the AA, consider the aspects more interesting of the primary lymphoma of the orbit and the possible influence of this kind of tumors as starting point of the mucocele.
