Mucoceles are slow-growing, benign, expansile, mucoid-filled masses developing after obstruction of the sinus ostium. Late post-traumatic mucoceles are relatively rare entities and the literature is limited to single case reports. We describe an unusual case of post-traumatic frontoethmoidal mucocele, evaluated with computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and proton MR-spectroscopy (1H-MRS). As a contribution to the diagnostic work-up of the mucocele, 1H-MRS demonstrates a dominant peak at 2.0 ppm at long echo time (TE) and an additional component at 3.8 ppm at short TE due to mucus glycoprotein compounds of the mucocele.
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