Coura Aragão, Ricardo Marques, Barbosa Marinho, Camila, Alves Silveira, Fábio Coelho, dos Santos Barros, Bruno Leão, Abrantes Leite Filho, Gilvandro de Assis, Lourenço Falcão Junior, Vlademir, and Duarte Vasconcelos, Maria Eduarda
Introduction: Maxillary sinus tumors are nasosinusal cancers that represent a therapeutic challenge, since this region is related to the nasal cavity, mouth, pterygopalatine fossa and orbit, in addition to having a close relationship with the skull base. Among these tumors, sarcoma stands out. Objectives: To describe sarcoma resection via hemifacial degloving and removal with neurosurgery. Resumed report: Female, 69 years old, with a previous diagnosis of sarcoma in the left maxillary sinus, who underwent surgery in 2006 and 2012, in addition to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, she lost follow-up, returning to the outpatient clinic in 2021 with a complaint of a mass on the right hemiface, pain in the lateral branch of the left mandible, epistaxis, dysphagia, foul odor and nasal obstruction. In 2022, the patient underwent craniofacial resection due to a tumor in the hard palate on the right, hemi-facial degloving for excision of a tumor in the left maxillary sinus, as well as removal combined with neurosurgery for a tumor extending to the base of the anterior skull, frontal and periorbital sinus, with bicoronal incision with pericranium flap and cranialization. The procedure was uneventful, and the patient evolved with significant improvement, however, with the presence of an orocutaneous fistula in the surgical incision. Conclusions: The treatment of head and neck sarcomas is based on several factors. Usually, surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used. Furthermore, due to their anatomical location, they are tumors that require multidisciplinary approaches to offer a decent quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]