INFECTED FRONTAL MUCOCELE WITH PROPTOSIS

Frontal sinus mucoceles can present with a multitude of different symptoms including ophthalmic disturbances, even though benign they have a tendency to expand by eroding the surrounding bony walls. They displace and destroy structures by pressure and bony erosion.A 60 year old female with proptosis of the right eye and headache with watering attended the OPD. On investigation, she was found to have isodense extraconal lesion in the right orbit with erosion of roof of orbit. She underwent surgery and found to have infected mucocele presenting as proptosis and skull erosion.