Abstract
As Vail 1 has pointed out, Rollet in 1896 first suggested the term mucocele as applicable to a condition in which there are an accumulation and a retention of a mucoid secretion within a sinus owing to a continuous or a periodic closure of its ostium. As a result, there is a gradual thinning, distention or actual erosion of one or more of the walls of the sinus. In 1921 Dabney 2 listed seventy-four reported cases of mucocele of the accessory sinuses of the nose. In 1923 Thomson and M'Ilraith 3 reported a case of mucocele of the frontal sinus. This was followed by Garretson's 4 case in 1927, Heatly's 5 two cases in 1928 and Vail's 6 case in 1930. Occlusion of the ostium from chronic inflammatory changes within the sinus or from pressure of a tumor such as an osteoma constitutes the main etiologic factor, although trauma, as
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