Sphenoid sinus mucocoele presenting with optic neuropathy and abducens palsy: a late complication of radiotherapy to the head and neck

Lin, J Y-S; Lin, S-L; Chang, Y-L; Lo, S-H; Chuang, F-S; Lin, S-Y

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Sphenoid sinus mucocoele presenting with optic neuropathy and abducens palsy: a late complication of radiotherapy to the head and neck

J Y-S Lin¹,
S-L Lin¹,
Y-L Chang²,
S-H Lo²,
F-S Chuang¹ &
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S-Y Lin¹

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Sphenoid sinus mucocoeles are unusual lesions with few reported cases in the medical literature since Berg¹ first described them. Symptoms and signs are caused by local expansion of the mucocoele and include headache, visual disturbance, and ophthalmoplegia. Multiple theories have been proposed to describe the cause of the mucocoele;² however, an association between the mucocoele and radiotherapy has rarely been described.^{3, 4} We report the case history of a patient with sphenoid sinus mucocoele, which upon further investigation, was found to be associated with radiotherapy.

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Lin, JS., Lin, SL., Chang, YL. et al. Sphenoid sinus mucocoele presenting with optic neuropathy and abducens palsy: a late complication of radiotherapy to the head and neck. Eye 19, 697–699 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.eye.6701581

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