PRIMARY SPHENOID AND PETROUS APEX ESTHESIONEUROBLASTOMA - CASE-REPORT

A 62-year-old woman presented with raised intracranial pressure and fe atures of a right cerebellopontine angle tumour with extension into th e right middle cranial fossa. The patient died before a surgical excis ion could be performed. The autopsy revealed a primary esthesioneurobl astoma of the sphenoid sinus eroding the petrous bone and extending in to the middle cranial fossa with metastatic tumour in the liver, and p aratracheal and hilar lymph nodes. Although rare, esthesioneuroblastom a must be considered in the differential diagnosis of petrous-sphenoid lesions.