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Volume 6, Issue 3 , Pages 149-152 , September 2011

Combined sphenoid and frontal sinus aplasia accompanied by bilateral maxillary sinus hypoplasia in a child with sinusitis

Arzu Tatlıpınar
- Haydarpaşa Numune Research and Training Hospital, 1st ENT Clinic, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Turkey
- Corresponding author at: Barboros mah, Fesleğen sok, Ağaoğlu My World Southside Sitesi, B3 Blok, Daire: 20 Batıataşehir, İstanbul, Turkey. Tel.: +90 216 6884540/532 227 66 57; fax: +90 212 2112500.
Onur Dede
- Haydarpaşa Numune Research and Training Hospital, 1st ENT Clinic, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Turkey
Erkan Esen
- Haydarpaşa Numune Research and Training Hospital, 1st ENT Clinic, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Turkey
Tanju Gökçeer
- Haydarpaşa Numune Research and Training Hospital, 1st ENT Clinic, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Turkey
Tayfun Akoğlu
- Haydarpaşa Numune Research and Training Hospital, Radiology Clinic, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Turkey

Received 9 February 2010 ,Revised 9 June 2010 ,Accepted 12 June 2010.

(a) Consecutive axial CT slices of paranasal sinuses demonstrate the lack of pneumatization in expected locations of sphenoid and frontal sinuses and bilateral hypoplastic maxillary sinuses. Bilateral

(a) Consecutive axial CT slices of paranasal sinuses demonstrate the lack of pneumatization in expected locations of sphenoid and frontal sinuses and bilateral hypoplastic maxillary sinuses. Bilateral soft tissue densities in maxillary sinuses are noted. (b) Sequential CT slices of paranasal sinuses in coronal plane shows the same findings in a.
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(a) cervicothoracal scoliosis and (b) MR image of sacrum abnormality.

(a) cervicothoracal scoliosis and (b) MR image of sacrum abnormality.
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