Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Anterior clinoid process (ACP) mucoceles are very rare, representing 1% of paranasal sinus mucoceles. (5) It commonly involves the frontal or the ethmoid sinus and rarely the sphenoid sinus. Involvement of the ACP as a localized lesion without sphenoid sinus involvement is very infrequent. Due to the anatomical proximity to optic nerve and the superior orbital fissure, it can present with multiple ophthalmological symptoms. The treatment possibilities vary from medical therapy with steroids and antibiotics to surgical decompression and marsupialization of the mucocele which can be executed as an open procedure or endoscopically. In the present study, the story of a patient who presented a mucocele of the ACP is reported.
Authors: Matheus Lima Silveira, Júlia Lima Silveira, Gabrielly de Paiva Kieffer, Lara Nolasco de Almeida, Marcos Cunha da Silveira, Romar Rogerio Vallory
Language: English
Subfield: Otorhinolaryngology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410542138