silent sinus syndrome
MONDO:0019108Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names silent sinus syndrome yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Silent sinus syndrome is characterized by adult-onset progressive enophthalmos due to collapse of some or all of the maxillary sinus walls.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0019108), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
3 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- Deeply set eyeHPOHP:0000490
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Abnormality of the eyeHPOHP:0000478
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Abnormality of visionHPOHP:0000504
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
1 name
Resolves to: silent sinus syndrome
- Also called
- Imploding antrum syndrome