OBJECTIVE To investigate the aerodynamic consequences of conservative unilateral inferior turbinate reduction using computational fluid dynamics methods to accomplish detailed nasal airflow simulations. DESIGN A high-resolution, finite-element mesh of the nasal airway was constructed from magnetic resonance imaging data of a healthy man. Steady-state, inspiratory airflow simulations were cond...

OBJECTIVE Idiopathic headache is a stressful complaint, whose treatment is not well established. Our study is an attempt to examine the relationship between idiopathic headache and inferior turbinate cauterization as a surgical treatment, and to explain the central physiological effect of cauterization. METHODS Thirty-four patients, 15 females and 19 males complaining of idiopathic headache w...

Malta Medical Journal Volume 25 Issue 03 2013 Introduction Empty Nose Syndrome (ENS) is a term first introduced by Kern and Moore which is used to describe a rare spectrum of various symptoms suffered by patients who had had previous radical turbinate surgery with a CT scan appearance of the paranasal sinuses after gross tissue loss. The most common symptom is socalled ‘‘paradoxical’’ nasal obs...

Objective: To evaluate whether a nasal gel, administered using a radial-hole inhaler, reaches the olfactory cleft, and if a different administration method influences distribution. Material and method: Sixteen healthy volunteers underwent a nasal endoscopy at 1 and 7 min after the administration of a intranasal gel, with a different method in each fossa. Results: No dye deposition was identifie...