Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Pneumatized superior turbinate as a cause of headache | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Open Access Pneumatized superior turbinate as a cause of headache Elias Homsioglou1 Dimitrios G Balatsouras 2 Gregory Alexopoulos1 Antonis Kaberos2 Michael Katotomichelakis3 and Vassilios Danielides1 Address Department of Otolaryngology Medical School Democritus University of Thrace. Dragana Alexandroupolis Greece 2Department of Otolaryngology Tzanion General Hospital 1 Afentouli Zanni Piraeus Greece and 3Department of Otolaryngology Agia Olga General Hospital of Athens 3-5 Agias Olgas N. Ionia Athens Greece Email Elias Homsioglou - homsioglou@ Dimitrios G Balatsouras - balats@ Gregory Alexopoulos - ent@ Antonis Kaberos - akaberos@ Michael Katotomichelakis - michkato@ Vassilios Danielides - vdaniili@ Corresponding author Published 09 January 2007 Received 20 October 2006 . I mzzi-rzz IZAXZAccepted 09 January 2007 Head Face Medicine 2007 3 3 doi l 746-160X-3-3 This article is available from http content 3 1 3 2007 Homsioglou et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract__ Background A pneumatized superior turbinate is a rare cause of headache. Nasal endoscopy alone does not provide us with adequate information for this inaccessible area of the superior nasal cavity. A coronal computed tomography CT must be obtained to confirm the diagnosis. Case presentation We present a 40-year-old female with migraine-type headache and nasal obstruction. Nasal endoscopy revealed a mild septal deviation a right middle concha bullosa and a paradoxically curved middle turbinate on the left side. Coronal CT-scan showed .
