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Pott's Puffy Tumor in an Adult: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Satomi Tatsumi¹, Min Ri¹, Naoyuki Higashi¹, Nozomu Wakayama², Shoji Matsune² and Mamiko Tosa³

¹Department of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
²Department of Otolaryngology, Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan
³Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nippon Medical School Musashi Kosugi Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Pott's puffy tumor is a subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone with osteomyelitis which has become rare because of the widespread use of antibiotics. Here, we report a case of Pott's puffy tumor in a 46-year-old man who visited the department of dermatology with painful swelling of the forehead. Despite open drainage and oral antibiotic therapy, the symptoms recurred twice in the following month. Computed tomography revealed a fistula of frontal bone. The eventual diagnosis was Pott's puffy tumor. The patient underwent endoscopic surgery at the department of otorhinolaryngology and achieved a complete recovery.

J Nippon Med Sch 2016; 83: 211-214

Keywords
Pott's puffy tumor, sinusitis, epidermal cyst, osteomyelitis

Correspondence to
Satomi Tatsumi, MD, PhD, Department of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital, 1-7-1 Nagayama, Tama, Tokyo 206-0025, Japan
syama@nms.ac.jp

Received, May 20, 2016
Accepted, October 3, 2016