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Fig 2. 33-year-old woman with frontal sinus mucocele. Coronal T2-weighted localizer image shows the voxel of interest for MR spectroscopy (white box) within a mucocele of high signal intensity (A). The mass is clearly extra-axial and compresses the frontal lobe brain parenchyma, which is excluded from the voxel. Note the involvement of the superior aspect of the right orbit (arrow) and destruction of the outer table of the skull (arrowheads). In vivo MR spectrum (B) shows a dominant peak at 2.0 ppm (arrow) and another at 3.9 ppm. There is also a complex multiplet between 1.2 and 1.4 ppm (arrowhead), probably from a combination of lipid and lactate. In vitro 1D proton NMR spectroscopy (C) of the mucocele contents removed at surgery confirms the dominant peak at 2.0 ppm (arrow) and other peaks at various positions of chemical shift.
