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| Year : 2017 | Volume
: 35
| Issue : 3 | Page : 275-278 |
Antrochoanal polyp arising from benign pseudocyst of maxillary antrum
Neha Keshri1, Avi Bansal2, Gourav Popli3, Arvind Venkatesh4, Siddhartha Goel5
1 Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologist, i-dent Dental Clinic, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Fellow (Cleft and Craniofacial Surgery), Richardson Dental and Craniofacial Hospital, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India
3 Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Subharti Dental College and Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
4 Director (Dental Affairs), Al Safi Group of Hospitals, Al Sulayel, Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia
5 Fellow (Maxillofacial Trauma), Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Correspondence Address:
Avi Bansal
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Subharti Dental College and Hospital, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/JISPPD.JISPPD_153_16
Antrochoanal polyps (ACPs) are benign lesions that arise from the mucosa of the maxillary antrum, grow into the maxillary sinus, and reach the choana with nasal obstruction being their main symptom. Most of these lesions are small and clinically silent and found as incidental finding, but large cysts which occupy the entire antrum have also been reported in literature. Nasal endoscopy and computer tomography (CT) are the golden standard in the diagnosis of ACPs, and enucleation by Caldwell–Luc approach is the recommended treatment for larger antral cysts. This article is a report of a 9-year-old male patient diagnosed with ACP arising from a benign cyst of maxillary antrum with characteristic clinical, CT, and histopathological features along with brief review of literature.
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