A Cured Case of Ethmoidal Mucocele with a Lack of Ethmoidal Tegmen

Abstract

A thirty-one years old, male adult has been complained with the ocular pain repeating every year since five years ago. This symptom is vanished by the operative treatment in our clinic, after frequent visits to ophthalmologists. After the opening of ethmoidal cells, the total lack of tegmen of anterior group of ethmoidal cells which made it possible to observe the brain tissue through a pulsatory outflow of clear liquor, was seen. In a day after operation, the roentgenogram of ethmoidal sinus which was filled with moljodol gauze introduced through maxillary sinus showed the lack of ethmoidal tegmen and the invasion of gauze into intracranial cavity. But this case was fortunately healed, without any complication, by postoperative use of antibiotics.