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

Macan D, Cabov T, Kobler P, Bumber Z

Department of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. darkom@kbd.hr

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.

Published 26 June 2006 in Dentomaxillofac Radiol, 35(4): 303-6.
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