BACKGROUND Microscopic and endoscopic transsphenoidal approaches to the sellar are well established. Surgical freedom is an important skull base principle that can be measured objectively and used to compare approaches. OBJECTIVE To compare the surgical freedom of 4 transsphenoidal approaches to the sella turcica to aid in surgical approach selection. METHODS Four transsphenoidal approaches...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Nasolabial cysts are rare nonodontogenic cysts arising commonly in the nasal alar region. Intraoral sublabial resection of nasolabial cysts is considered the standard treatment modality. In the past 16 years, transnasal endoscopic marsupialization has emerged as an alternative approach for these lesions. A systematic review on this entity was performed to evaluate manageme...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate hospitalization rates and duration of surgery associated with transnasal endoscopic marsupialization compared with sublabial excision in treating nasolabial cysts. DESIGN Retrospective clinical series. SETTING Large urban community hospital. PATIENTS Consecutive sample of 57 patients with nasolabial cysts treated from January 1, 2000, to February 29, 2008. INTERVEN...

INTRODUCTION With continued advances in endoscopic techniques, recent years have witnessed significant innovation in surgical approaches to sinonasal and skull base pathology. A substantial number of open surgeries have been supplanted by endonasal procedures, and the spectrum of applications for such less-invasive methods has expanded considerably to encompass progressively larger, more comple...

Nasopalatine duct cysts are the most common non-odontogenic cysts in the maxilla, and are conventionally treated through a sublabial or palatine approach. Recently, the endoscopic approach has been used, but experience is extremely limited. We treated a 29-year-old male with nasopalatine duct cyst by endoscopic marsupialization, but paresthesia of the incisor region occurred after surgery. This...

Chondromyxoid fibroma; a rarely found tumor, contributing <1% of all primary bone neoplasm. We reported 4-year female child with 1-year history nasal obstruction and facial swelling. Large enhanced lesion amorphous densities spreading into the right cribriform plate floor sphenoid sinus, laterallyinto lamina papyracea, inferolaterally medial wall maxillary posteriorly nasopharynx superior as...

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OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Endoscopic infratemporal fossa (ITF) surgery is a growing clinical interest. This study presents a method of analyzing approach access and visualization, identifies relevant anatomy in an endoscopic approach to the ITF, and compares endoscopic medial maxillectomy (MMA) and endoscopic-assisted sublabial transmaxillary (SLT) approaches to the ITF as a model for this paradigm...

Introduction: Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) arising in extra-oral region in head and neck are rare, and when swellings arise from other sites such as infraorbital region, cheek, etc, tuberculosis is not usually considered for the differential diagnosis (DD) and often the diagnosis is missed and appropriate treatment is delayed. Case Report: We report a rare entity of pri...

OBJECTIVES Surgical excision via a sublabial approach is considered the standard treatment for nasolabial cysts. Although transnasal marsupialization has been proposed as an alternative method, no prospective study has compared the effectiveness of these techniques. We thus compared the surgical procedure, operating time, postoperative pain, complications, and recurrence rate between the two su...