Case Report
Osteoma of the Medial Wall of the Maxillary Sinus: A Primary Cause of Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction and Review of the Literature
Table 1
Osteomas causing epiphora—review of the literature.
| Reference | Age | Sex | Osteoma location | Symptoms |
| [5] | 1984 |
Sternberg and Levine | 15 | N/A1 | Ethmoid sinus | Epiphora | [3] | 1999 | Mansour et al. | 66 | F2 | Ethmoid sinus | Orbital cellulitis, epiphora | [6] | 2003 | Osma et al. | 35 | M3 | Ethmoid sinus | Epiphora | [7] | 2003 |
Lin et al. | 73 | M | Middle turbinate | Ιpsilateral facial pain, epiphora, nasal obstruction | [8] | 2005 | Kandogan et al. | 39 | F | Ethmoid sinus | Epiphora, facial pain | [9] | 2005 | Zouloumis et al. | 34 | F | Ethmoid sinus | Headache, epiphora, proptosis | [10] | 2006 | Lachanas et al. | 16 | M | Ethmoid sinus | Epiphora, mild pain in area of median canthus | [11] | 2010 | Daneshi et al. | 41 | F | Middle turbinate | Nasal obstruction, epiphora, nasal discharge | [12] | 2013 | Kim and Kwon | 49 | M | Nasolacrimal duct | Ipsilateral ocular pain, epiphora, medial canthal swelling |
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N/A: not available.
2F: female.
3M: male.
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