Skull Base 2007; 17(4): 247-252
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-984492
CASE REPORT

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Teflon Granuloma of the Skull Base: A Complication of Endonasal Brain Surgery

Ryan J. Soose1 , Carl H. Snyderman1 , Amin B. Kassam2
  • 1Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 2Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Publication Date:
13 July 2007 (online)

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ABSTRACT

Teflon granuloma is an inflammatory giant-cell foreign-body reaction to polytetrafluoroethylene fibers or injection. Tissue augmentation with Teflon has dramatically declined over the past two decades because of its implication in granuloma formation. Nevertheless, Teflon felt is still commonly used in neurosurgical dissection and microvascular decompression. We report a patient with a Teflon granuloma of the skull base discovered 1.5 years after endonasal resection of an olfactory groove meningioma. The case highlights the clinical and radiographic diagnosis as well as the management of this unusual finding.

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Carl H SnydermanM.D. 

Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

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Email: snydermanch@upmc.edu