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Pott’s puffy tumor was defined by the eighteenth century surgeon Percival Pott as a subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone.

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  1. Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, The Univeristy of Utah, 50 North Medical Drive, Suite 3C120, Salt Lake City, UT, 84132, USA

    Richard R. Orlandi MD

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA

    Stilianos E. Kountakis

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    Brent A. Senior

  3. Fulda, Hessen, Germany

    Wolfgang Draf

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Orlandi, R.R. (2016). Pott’s Puffy Tumor. In: Kountakis, S., Senior, B., Draf, W. (eds) The Frontal Sinus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48523-1_14

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