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Infections > Bone Diseases, Infectious > Osteomyelitis > Pott Puffy Tumor
Musculoskeletal Diseases > Bone Diseases > Bone Diseases, Infectious > Osteomyelitis > Pott Puffy Tumor
Eye Diseases > Orbital Diseases > Pott Puffy Tumor

Preferred term

Pott Puffy Tumor  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Pott's Puffy Tumor
  • Potts Puffy Tumor
  • Puffy Tumor, Pott's
  • Tumor, Pott's Puffy

Note

  • do not confuse with POTT DISEASE see TUBERCULOSIS, SPINAL

Scope note

  • Infection of the FRONTAL BONE often as a complication of FRONTAL SINUSITIS or trauma to the frontal bone and skull. It is characterized by subperiosteal abscess with OSTEOMYELITIS.

History note

  • 2012

In other languages

  • Pottin kasvama

    Finnish

  • Pott's puffy -kasvain
  • Pott's puffy -tuumori
  • Pottin tuumori

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D059369

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