A Pott's puffy tumour as a late complication of a frontal sinus reconstruction: case report and literature review
Volume: 47 - Issue: 4
First page: 470 - Last page: 475
S. Collet - V. Grulois - Ph. Eloy - Ph. Rombaux - B. Bertrand
DOI: 10.4193/Rhin07.060
A Pott's Puffy Tumour (PPT) is a rare clinical entity, which, traditionally has been described as an acute abscess with periosteitis secondary to osteomyelitis of the external table of the frontal bone of the skull, complicating an acute frontal sinusitis.
The aim of this article is to present a case of progressively evolving PPT, which emerged during the course of a common rhinitis, in a patient who, thirty years previously, had undergone a reconstruction of the frontal sinus involving osteosynthesis. The patient was treated with antibiotic therapy coupled with external access surgery using the Cairn Unterberger approach. This allowed the drainage of pus, the removal of infected osteosynthetic material and a complete debridement of osteomyelitic bone from the affected area. Frontal sinus obliteration was undertaken using methyl methacrylate, preferable in this case to hydroxyapatite, due to the direct communication with the neighbouring sinus cavities and the presence of defective bone in the superior orbit. A review of literature available on Medline up to January 2008 reveals that this is the third
published case of PPT complicating a frontal reconstruction.
Rhinology 47-4: 470-475, 2009
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