OBJECTIVE To investigate the difference in susceptibility to rhinovirus (RV) infection and RV-induced inflammatory response between the nasal mucosae from patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRS/NP) and subjects without CRS/NP (hereinafter, normal subjects). DESIGN In vitro study. SETTING Tertiary care rhinology clinic. PATIENTS We conducted RV infection experiments on...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and clinical relevance of unanticipated histopathologic results in routine sinonasal surgery and evaluate the necessity for histologic processing of nasal septal cartilage, bone, and inferior turbinate specimens. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary care academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A retrospective review of sur...

OBJECTIVE To compare the microscopic and macroscopic effects of radiofrequency, high-frequency, and electrocautery therapies with partial inferior turbinotomy in the treatment of nasal obstruction caused by inferior turbinate hypertrophy. DESIGN Nonrandomized controlled trial. SETTING Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Genoa. PATIENTS The study included 80 p...

Correspondence Physician’s Regional Medical Center, 6101 Pine Ridge Road, Naples, FL 34109, USA. Email: DavidGreeneMD@ comcast.net Tel: 239-348-4081. Hypertrophy of the inferior turbinates is an important cause of nasal obstruction. It is caused by multiple factors including both soft tissue and bony factors, including hypervascular engorgement, inflammation, and compensatory turbinate hypertro...

Osteomas are benign, slow growing bone tumors often seen in paranasal sinuses, mostly in the frontal sinus, whereas they are rare in the nasal cavity. Inferior turbinate osteoma is extremely rare and our case is the third reported in the literature to date. Symptoms vary depending on the location, size and spreading and nasal obstruction is the most common symptom. Treatment of osteomas is surg...

In the past 130 years, many surgical procedures for turbinate reduction have been developed. We analyzed the long-term efficacy of 6 of these surgical techniques (turbinectomy, laser cautery, electrocautery, cryotherapy, submucosal resection, and submucosal resection with lateral displacement) over a 6-year follow-up period. We randomly divided 382 patients into 6 therapeutic groups and surgica...

A 62-year-old man presented with bilateral nasal obstruction and recurrent epistaxis episodes. Physical examination revealed normal body temperature and free cervical lymph nodes areas. Nasal endoscopy found a congestive nasal mucosa associated to bilateral inferior turbinate hypertrophy with a granular aspect of the right inferior turbinate. The biological examination showed lymphopenia, infla...