Mouth-Antrum Junction: Or something else? Differential Diagnosis

Respiratory System (J00-J99).

  • Allergic rhinitis (“hay fever“) – bilateral [prolonged MAV: unilateral].
  • Mucocele (mucus accumulation) [CH shading in prolonged MAV]
  • Pyocele (pus accumulation) [CH shadowing in prolonged MAV]

Eyes and eye appendages (H00-H59).

  • Ocular disease [orbital involvement/ocular involvement in sinusitis/sinusitis due to chronic MAV]

Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).

  • Mycosis (fungal disease) [sinusitis in chronic MAV]
  • Viral infection [sinusitis in chronic MAV]
  • Bacterial infection [sinusitis in chronic MAV]

Mouth, esophagus (food pipe), stomach and intestines (K00-K67; K90-K93).

Injuries, poisonings, and other sequelae of external causes (S00-T98).

  • Foreign body [radix in antro (“tooth root remnant in the (maxillary) sinus”)]

Legend: KH shadowing = maxillary sinus shadowing.