Primary Endoscopic Surgery of the Maxillary Sinus
11 Primary Endoscopic Surgery of the Maxillary Sinus Amir Minovi and Wolfgang Draf More complex endonasal surgery of the paranasal sinuses was first performed at the beginning of the 20th…
Revision Maxillary Sinus Surgery including Canine Fossa Trephination
12 Revision Maxillary Sinus Surgery including Canine Fossa Trephination Marc A. Tewfik, Simon Robinson, and Peter-John Wormald One of the keys to achieving successful outcomes from functional endoscopic sinus surgery…
Management of Persistent Maxillary Sinusitis: The View from China
22 Management of Persistent Maxillary Sinusitis: The View from China Geng Xu, Jianbo Shi, Guanxia Xiong, Kejun Zuo, and Abusaleh Muneif When performing maxillary sinus surgery in our practice in…
Benign Maxillary Sinus Masses
9 Benign Maxillary Sinus Masses Hesham Saleh and Valerie J. Lund The maxillary sinus may harbor any of a large number of benign lesions with a different array of etiologies….
The Pterygopalatine Fossa
19 The Pterygopalatine Fossa Belachew Tessema, Jean Anderson Eloy, and Roy R. Casiano The pterygopalatine fossa (PPF) is a pyramidal space with incomplete osseous boundaries located among the maxillary, sphenoid,…
Management of Persistent Maxillary Sinusitis: The View from Japan
23 Management of Persistent Maxillary Sinusitis: The View from Japan Keiichi Ichimura Buoyed by the sentiment that the Japanese economy could “no longer be termed postwar,” Japan’s gross national product…
Balloon Sinuplasty for the Maxillary Sinus
14 Balloon Sinuplasty for the Maxillary Sinus Winston C. Vaughan and Roy F. Thomas Chronic rhinosinusitis affects 31 million adults in the United States each year, resulting in direct annual…
Learning from Two Difficult Cases: Transmaxillary Approaches to the Pterygopalatine Space
27 Learning from Two Difficult Cases: Transmaxillary Approaches to the Pterygopalatine Space Hwa J. Son and Rakesh K. Chandra Prior to advances in instrumentation for endoscopic sinus surgery, access to…
Learning from a Difficult Case: Accessing the Anterolateral Maxillary Sinus
25 Learning from a Difficult Case: Accessing the Anterolateral Maxillary Sinus Richard J. Harvey Aggressive exposure is not necessary for inflammatory disease. There are 90- and 120-degree microdebriders (Medtronic, Jacksonville,…
Caldwell–Luc Surgery
17 Caldwell–Luc Surgery Paul T. Russell and Samuel S. Becker Before the advent of Caldwell–Luc surgery in the 1890s, maxillary sinus disease had been treated by antral washout through the…
