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Rare disease
Recurrent Pott’s puffy tumour
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Description
Pott’s puffy tumour is a rare complication of frontal sinusitis or trauma, named after Sir Percival Pott, an English surgeon who described it in 1760.
Presentation is often with a tender and fluctuant soft-tissue swelling over the frontal bone. Radiologically, it is characterised by a subperiosteal abscess associated with frontal bone osteomyelitis and frontal sinus opacity.1 It can …
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