CASE 1

Courtesy of Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

2-years-old male with a bump felt along the left side of the nose

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CASE 1 ANSWER

Nasomaxillary Suture Dermoid Cyst

The highlighted (circle) is a small well-defined fat-density expansile lytic lesion of the inferior edge of the left nasomaxillary suture

Key Points

• Congenital inclusion lesions of epithelial and dermal elements.

• Of fat, fluid or mixed densities.

• May be associated with sinus connection to the intracranial cavity.