Piedra Rosseta, enoftalmía y síndrome del seno silencioso

the author uses the story of the ？rosetta stone？ and the modern understanding of egyptian hieroglyphs as a metaphor to refer to a critical key in the process of decription and identification of a covered disease and its translation to clinical terms. jean-fran？ois champollion its decipherer has never been forgotten and the students of the egyptian culture always will have in mind that thanks to him the history of a language, that was dead for the world, revived and he has left lessons to us that day to day increases the knowledge of pharaonic egypt. the silent sinus syndrome which is relatively unknown consists of painless facial visible asymmetry and enophthalmos with hypoglobus caused by bone resorption and remodeling of the orbital floor due to chronic maxillary sinus atelectasis. although the diagnosis is usually suspected clinically, it is confirmed radiologically by characteristic imaging features that include maxillary sinus outlet obstruction, sinus opacification, and sinus volume loss caused by inward retraction of the sinus walls. the silent sinus syndrome can be definitively treated by creating an outlet for mucous drainage from obstructed sinus. it remains an under-recognised condition in both ophthalmologic and otolaryngologic community. we present the first cases ever described in venezuela.