Introduction: The association between asthma and sinonasal disease has been established for years. As sinonasal disease is one of the factors that exacerbates asthma, effective treatment of this disorder may also improve and stabilize the asthmatic condition. This study examines the outcome of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) on asthmatic patients with massive nasal polyposis.   Materials and Met...

BACKGROUND There is a need to find an animal model to study new medications to improve mucosal wound healing after functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Current literature suggests swine as a potential candidate. The lack of information correlating swine computer tomography (CT) and endoscopic sinonasal anatomy prompted us to investigate them in the domestic and Yucatan swine to determine...

Objective. To determine the efficacy of sinonasal evaluation preceding hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) and to correlate pretransplant findings with subsequent risk of post-HCT complications based on radiographic, endoscopic, and microbiologic findings. Study Design. Case series with chart review. Setting. Academic tertiary care center. Subjects and Methods. Seventy-one patients underwent pr...

During the past decade open nasal surgery has been overtaken by endoscopic resection in the management of benign sinonasal tumours in the advanced countries. However, due to limited availability of endoscopic surgical facilities and training in most parts of subSaharan Africa, open surgery still seems popular. This report determines the indications and outcome of open nasal surgery for benign t...

The development of endoscopic techniques for a variety of sinonasal disorders has paralleled advances in technology and instrumentation including angled endoscopes, multi-chip cameras, and image guidance. Despite the progressive technological innovations in modern endoscopic surgery, the visualization that is currently used remains 2-dimensional (2D). This is associated with significant limitat...

BACKGROUND Binostril endoscopic transsphenoidal approach (BETA) provides sufficient manipulation space and wide endoscopic vision, although it increases the trauma of nose. Mononostril endoscopic transsphenoidal approach (META) has minimal trauma of nose, at the expense of space within the operation. We describe a one-and-a-half nostril endoscopic transsphenoidal approach (OETA) that combines t...

hemangiomas of the sinonasal tract are rare, and because these lesions lack the typical signs or symptoms, they can be confused with other malignant conditions. we report a case of cavernous hemangioma of the maxillary sinus in a 68-year-old man that was completely resected by endoscopic sinus surgery. although computed tomography (ct) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) showed several enhanci...

Corresponding author: Vlad Budu e-mail: [email protected] Vlad Budu1, Alexandra Schnaider1, Ioan Bulescu2 1“Prof. Dr. Dorin Hociota” Institute of Phono-Audiology and Functional ENT Surgery, Bucharest, Romania 2Department of Anatomy, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania Endoscopic approach of sinonasal inverted papilloma – our 15 years’ experience on 162 cases ...