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Lung adenocarcinoma metastasis to frontal sinus mimicking Pott's puffy tumor
Ender Koktekir1, Bengu Ekinci Koktekir, Fahri Recber
1From the *Departments of Neurosurgery and †Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.
Abstract:
Metastasis of the lung adenocarcinoma to the paranasal sinuses is a rare clinical entity. We present a 75-year-old male patient who presented with swelling of the forehead and left upper eyelid with proptosis in left eye due to metastasis from lung adenocarcinoma. It appears as a puffy swelling of the forehead like a Pott's puffy tumor. Pott's puffy tumor is a subperiostal abscess of the frontal bone associated with osteomyelitis and usually occurs as a complication of sinusitis or trauma.

