Figure 1. Yellow-black discoloration of upper palate. Figure 2. Paranasal sinus CT scan revealed a defect of the nasal septum and skin and subcutaneous edema.

The sinus sphenoidalis is the paranasal sinus most centrally located in the skull base and known to vary extremely in dimensions. A very large volume of the sinus visible on skull radiographs is called sinus 'hyperaeration'. This finding has been described many times in the literature, but is generally rare. The term 'pneumosinus dilatans' is synonymously used to address an unexpectedly large p...

To investigate the claim that the primate paranasal sinuses possess not a functional but a structural role associated with the skull architecture (Blaney, 1990), the relationship between the maxillary sinus and the skull architecture was studied ontogenetically in 30 skulls of male and female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Coronal CT scan series and computerised 3-dimensional images served...

Improvements in functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) and computed tomography (CT) have concurrently increased interest in the anatomy of the paranasal region. Common anatomical variations are not rare in patients with chronic paranasal sinusitis. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the incidence of anatomic variations of the lateral nasal wall in a series of 200 patients wi...

One hundred twenty-eight patients were examined prospectively to determine the significance of mucosal thickening seen in the paranasal sinuses during routine MR imaging of the brain. On the basis of responses to a questionnaire, each patient was categorized as symptomatic (n = 60) or asymptomatic (n = 68) for paranasal sinus disease. Patients were categorized further on the basis of the maxima...

Introduction Foreign bodies are quite rarely encountered in the paranasal sinuses. In the literature, intracranial foreign bodies are usually observed in the orbital and frontal sinuses and nasal region (1, 2). Garces and Norris (3) reported that 70% of these foreign bodies usually appeared after maxillofacial traumas and 30% appeared during or after dental procedures of maxilla. Foreign bodies...

Objective Sinonasal cellular schwannoma represents < 4% of head and neck schwannomas. These benign tumors are typically confined to the nasal cavity or ethmoid sinus. We describe an atypical case of sinonasal cellular schwannoma with diffuse paranasal sinus involvement and both intraorbital and intracranial extension. Results A 62-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of right orbital...

This study retrospectively analyses paranasal sinus complications following displacement of oral implants in the maxillary sinus treated according to clinical situation by functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), an intraoral approach, or a combination of both procedures. Over 5 years, 27 patients (13 male; 14 female), aged 27-73 years (mean 53.9 years), underwent treatment for postoperative...

&#x0D; Background : sinus paranasal adalah rongga yang terdapat pada tulang-tulang wajah terdiri dari frontal, etmoid, maksila dan sphenoid. Pemeriksaan Ct scan dengan pemberian kontras media digunakan untuk mendeteksi berbagai kelainan secara rinci bentuk-bentuk jaringan lunak, dimana diketahui irisan axial merupakan standar pemeriksaan paling baik dalam bidang inferior orbito meatal line (IOM...

Osteoma is a benign, slowly growing tumor that mainly occurs in the bones and cavities of the middle third of the face, representing the most frequent benign tumor of the paranasal sinuses. It rarely originates primarily from the orbit. Most of these lesions develop in the fourth to fifth decades of life, and are more commonly encountered in males. In the English literature, there are so far th...