Παρασκευή 12 Οκτωβρίου 2018

A snotty nose: more than just a cold

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A healthy 3-year-old girl presented with a 5-day history of right-sided cheek and eye swelling and pain, associated with right-sided green nasal discharge. Examination revealed diffuse erythematous swelling around the right cheek, jawline and eye. Oral antibiotics for suspected periorbital cellulitis were ineffective. Blood inflammatory markers and ultrasound of her neck and parotid glands were normal. She was discharged as having viral parotitis. Antibiotics and nasal drops were later restarted for clinical sinusitis; however, she showed no improvement, now having 3 weeks of right-sided facial swelling with thick green and intermittently bloody nasal discharge. Further history revealed possible squint, mastication pain and breathing difficulty through the right nostril.

Cranial imaging (figure 1) demonstrated a large central but predominantly right-sided nasopharyngeal tumour, extending into the ethmoid sinuses and orbits (with medial recti distortion), infratemporal fossa and pterygoid muscles and anterior and middle cranial fossae. There was...



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