
CASE 1
Updated: Jul 19, 2019
Courtesy of Almoosa Specialist Hospital, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
2-years-old male with a bump felt along the left side of the nose
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.