OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of endoscopic surgery for chronic frontal sinusitis. DESIGN A prospective analysis of established measures of clinical outcome (Chronic Sinusitis Survey and Short Form 36) that was administered to patients before frontal sinus surgery and at intervals of 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year after surgery. INTERVENTIONS For limited disease, the frontal recess wa...

Abhijit A. Raut and Bhavin Jankharia Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Imaging Modalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Development of Paranasal Sinuses . . . . . . . . . . 36 Anatomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Mucociliary Apparatus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Normal Nasal Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Sinonasal Disease . . . . ....

inusitis is a widespread disease frequently seen in the primary care setting. There are 32 million cases of chronic sinusitis in the United States annually. Since 1980, the number of office visits per year has tripled, owing partly to a better definition of the disease and improved diagnosis, and the use of antibiotics to treat the disease has quadrupled. Sinusitis accounted for 11.6 million of...

OBJECTIVE To identify and evaluate the frequency of the different odontogenic conditions that may lead to maxillary sinusitis. STUDY DESIGN An observational and retrospective meta-analysis was carried out on 770 cases of maxillary sinusitis obtained from a literature review of 15 articles. RESULTS Maxillary sinusitis most commonly manifests itself as chronic maxillary sinusitis. It is more ...

Ectopic eruption of teeth into regions other than the oral cavity is rare although there have been reports of teeth in the nasal septum, mandibular condyle, coronoid process, palate, chin, and maxillary sinus. Occasionally, a tooth may erupt in the maxillary sinus and present with local sinonasal symptoms attributed to chronic sinusitis. We present a case of an ectopic maxillary third molar too...

In a prospective study, patients with the diagnosis of chronic ethmoid sinusitis were evaluated microbiologically by using biopsy specimens of the ethmoid sinus mucosa. Microbiology cultures were performed on 94 specimens from 59 patients. Staphylococcus aureus and members of the family Enterobacteriaceae were the most frequent classical pathogenic bacteria isolated. Coagulase-negative staphylo...