An Unusual Cause of Epistaxis: Paranasal Sinus Myeloid Sarcoma

Table 1

Known cases of head and neck myeloid sarcoma reported within the literature. There are no reported cases with disease confined to the paranasal sinuses [10].

Case no.	Age (yr)/gender	Myeloid sarcoma site	Presentation	Bone marrow disease
1	77/F	Tongue	Tongue lesion	Yes
2	55/M	Mandible	Jaw pain	Yes
3	47/F	Tonsils, base of tongue	Sore throat	Yes
4	6/1M	Tonsil	Throat pain	Yes
5	25/M	Eye, parotid and submandibular gland	Bulging of right eye	Yes
6	79/M	Cutaneous cheek and eyelid lesion	Skin lesions	Yes
7	65/F	Lip	Lip mass	Yes
8	63/M	Cutaneous cheek lesion	Pimple	Yes
9	80/M	Cutaneous eyelid, forehead lip lesion	Skin rash	No
10	55/M	Gingiva, maxilla	Gingival mass	Yes
11	21/M	Tonsil	Enlarged tonsil	Yes
12	48/M	Mandible, maxilla	Unknown	Yes
13	77/M	Maxilla, alveolus	Mouth pain, dyspnea, fatigue	Yes
14	56/M	Mandible	Blasts in blood	Yes
15	85/F	Lip	Lip and skin lesion	Yes
16	69/M	Middle turbinate (intranasal)	Sinus pain and pressure	Yes
17	17/M	Cutaneous cheek lesions, breast mass	Skin lesion and breast mass	No