Malignant tumors of the frontal sinus: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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[Symptoms of malignant tumors of the frontal sinus
In the initial period, most often they occur under the guise of chronic pharyngitis, but with a timely performed trephine and fenal sinus and aspiration biopsy, the tumor can be recognized by histological examination. An indirect indication indicating the presence of a tumor in the frontal sinus during trephine puncture may be the ingress of blood into the needle and the syringe instead of the expected pus.
Diagnosis of malignant tumors of the frontal sinus
Diagnosis of malignant tumors of the frontal sinus in the latent period is excluded due to the absence of subjective signs of the disease. Only after obturation with tumor masses of the frontal-nasal passage or pressure on the end of the trigeminal nerve, the corresponding neurologic and rhinological symptoms appear and the patient turns to the ENT specialist. But even in this case, diagnostic errors can occur with insufficient oncologic alertness of the doctor. Most often the initial period of malignant tumors of the frontal sinus passes under the sign of a banal inflammatory process.
Differentiate malignant frontal sinus tumors from mucocele of the frontal sinus, benign tumors, from chronic purulent frontalitis complicated by frontal bone osteomyelitis.
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Treatment of malignant tumors of the frontal sinus
Treatment of malignant tumors of the frontal sinus is in most cases palliative.
What prognosis are the malignant tumors of the frontal sinus?
Malignant frontal sinus tumors have a very severe prognosis due to the rapid development of the tumor, intensive extraterritorial growth into neighboring areas, and late recognition of this otolaryngological disease. Patients usually die from secondary intracranial complications.