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Figure 1: 53-year-old patient with leukemia prior to radiation therapy.

a) Conventional radiograph of the paranasal sinuses; soft tissue swelling within the right maxillary sinus without air-fluid level.

b) CT of the paranasal sinuses of the same patient. The CT was performed 2 hours after plain radiographs. CT shows sinusitis of the sphenoid sinus not detectable on the radiographs.

c) CT does not confirm sinusitis of the right maxillary sinus.