This CT scan depicts a patient with:

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There is a soft tissue mass destroying the medial and lateral walls of the right maxillary sinus and invading the right orbit. Sinusitis rarely destroys bone, for example, in an immunocompromised patient with a fungal sinusitis. Therefore, right-sided invasive sino-nasal tumor is much more likely in this case. Fractures deform bone, and this image shows extensive bone destruction, not just deformation. Asymmetries of the orbit are geometric differences between the two sides, not destroyed bone.

This CT Scan Depicts a Patient With