In recent years, periapical surgery has evolved thanks to new diagnostic and technical advances. A review is made of the literature on periapical surgery of the antral teeth, based on a Medline search and on the revision of Spanish dental journals in the period between 1974 and 2003. The anatomy of the maxillary sinus is discussed, along with the diagnosis of periapical lesions and the relation...

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...

The surgical treatment of frontal sinus fractures is foreshadowed by fears of late complications. Complications such as meningitis and mucoceles should be prevented by cranialization or obliteration of the frontal sinus. These procedures are still standard treatment despite of recent developments over the last two decades in endoscopic sinus surgery, in medical imaging and surgical instrumentat...

A 55 year old male patient was operated on for a massive and vascular acoustic neurinoma in a sitting position. The tumor was completely excised. Post-operatively, the patient developed irritability and clinical features suggestive of contralateral cavernous sinus thrombosis. CT scan showed air within the dural walls of the cavernous sinus on the side of surgery. However, there was no radiologi...

A coronary artery fistula (CAF) is defined as a direct connection between with right heart chambers including the atrium, ventricle, sinus, superior vena cava, or pulmonary arteries. Elective closure of by surgery percutaneous transcatheter technique generally accepted in presence symptoms. We report case successful device fistula, originating from circumflex and draining into sinus.

OBJECTIVE The complication rates associated with different types of functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) remain to be fully examined. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS We extracted data from the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination database on 50,734 patients (aged ≥ 16 years) who underwent FESS for chronic rhinosinusitis between 2007 and 2013. We focused on specifi...