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55yo M with a painless mass in his nose. Biopsy shows “foamy histiocytes,” w/a “moth-eaten” cytoplasm and large plasma cells w/birefringent inclusions. Most likely diagnosis?
Rhinoscleroma
Rhinoscleroma is caused by ___.
Klebsiella Rhinoscleromatis.
Foamy histiocytes (vacuoled macrophages) of Rhinoscleroma are called ___.
Mikulicz cells
Bloated plasma cells of Rhinoscleroma are referred to as ___.
Russell bodies
A ___ presents in teenage males and histopath shows numerous thin-walled vessels, bland epithelium, and fibrous stroma that become fibrotic and less vascular with maturity.
JNA
A JNA presents in teenage males and histopath showing numerous ___(1)___, ___(2)___, and ___(3)___ that become fibrotic and less vascular with maturity.
(1) thin-walled vessels
(2) bland epithelium
(3) fibrous stroma
Churg Strauss syndrome is a small vessel vasculitis that causes _____.
angiitis and allergic granulomatosis
___ is a small vessel vasculitis is that causes angiitis and allergic granulomatosis.
Churg Strauss syndrome
What is true regarding the use of an image guidance system during endoscopic sinus surgery?
The AAOHNS endorses the use of image guidance systems for disease abutting the skull base.
An 85yo M for recurrent expistaxis and nasal congestion. On PE, a pigmented lesion is seen in the R NC. A biopsy frozen section shows small round blue cells. The final path report shows: HMB 45 (+), Cytokeratine (-), Neuron specific enclose (-), S-100 (+), Deamin (-). What is the likely diagnosis?
Melanoma
Also typically melan-A positive
Which sinonasal tumor is: HMB 45 (-), Cytokeratine (+), Neuron specific enclose (+), S-100 (-), Deamin (-)
Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma
Which sinonasal tumor is: HMB 45 (-), Cytokeratine (-), Neuron specific enclose (+), S-100 (-), Deamin (-)
Ewing Sarcoma
Which sinonasal tumor is: HMB 45 (-), Cytokeratine (-), Neuron specific enclose (-), S-100 (-), Desmin (+)
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Which Two sinonasal tumors are Neuron specific enolase (+)
- Ewing Sarcoma
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
Due to normal anatomical variance, the Frontal Sinus will drain ___ to the uncinate and into the ___ in approximately 20% of people
Lateral to the uncinate and into the infindibulum
In 20% of patients the uncinate attaches to the ___.
Skull base or Middle turbinate.
In 20% of patients the uncinate attaches to the skull base or middle turbinate, causing the frontal sinus to drain:
Directly into the ethmoid infindibulum.
In 80% of people, the uncinate process attaches to the ____.
Lamina papyracea
The uncinate attaches to the lamina papyracea in 80% of cases and drainage from the frontal sinus is
Medial to the uncinate and into the infindibulum.
A 49yo M undergoes endoscopic sinus surgery for isolated sphenoid sinusitis. A wide b/l sphenoid osteotomy is performed and the sinus is debrided. A pulsation is visible along the L lateral wall at which point a bony dehiscence over the ___ is noted.
Carotid artery
A 49yo M undergoes endoscopic sinus surgery for isolated sphenoid sinusitis. A wide b/l sphenoid osteotomy is performed and the sinus is debrided. A pulsation is visible along the L lateral wall at which point a bony dehiscence over the carotid artery is noted. What segment of the carotid artery is this?
Cavernous segment - 5 segments within the cavernous sinus as it makes two turns
7 segments of the ICA
“C’mon Please Learn Carotid Clinical Organizing Classification”
C: cervical segment P: petrous segment L: lacerum segment C: cavernous segment C: clinoid segment O: ophthalmic segment C: communicating segment
What is the most common cause of anosmia?
Obstructive and inflammatory nasal disease
A 25yo M presents with painful inflamed folliculitis on the nasal tip. What nerve transmits pain from this region?
External nasal branch of anterior ethmoidal nerve (branch of V1)