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

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.

KEYWORDS

Teflon granuloma - endonasal neurosurgery - meningioma - skull base

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