Invasive sinonasal polyps causing ophthalmoplegia, exophthalmos, and visual field loss.

In a 20-year-old man with a history of sinonasal polyps, bilateral ophthalmoplegia, exophthalmos, and optic nerve dysfunction developed. Radiologic imaging showed a polypoid mass filling the nose and sinuses, eroding into the pituitary fossa, basal cisterns, and orbits, and compressing the cavernous sinuses. Six months after bilateral maxillary, ethmoid, and sphenoid exploration, ocular motility returned to normal, but there remained mild generalized visual field loss in the right eye. The pathologic specimen showed polypoid respiratory mucosa with acute and chronic inflammation as well as eosinophiles.