A six-month analysis of frontal sinus drainage pathway in patients with frontal sinusitis after balloon sinuplasty.

Background: The balloon catheter has been used for a decade to dilate paranasal sinus outflow tracts. The question is: how wide and how durable is the dilation of drainage pathways in patients in long-term observations after this procedure?

Objective: The objective of our study was to observe the changes occurring in the frontal sinus drainage pathway (FSDP) in patients with frontal sinusitis at least 6 months after surgery using balloon catheters in an isolated procedure.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed and measured the FSDP width on computed tomography (CT) of 23 images before and after the use of balloon catheters.

Minimally invasive transnasal approach for primary ectopic meningioma of the paranasal sinuses.

Endoscopic sinus surgery is a standard procedure in the treatment of various pathologies such as chronic sinusitis or some types of neoplasms. The transnasal approach to tumours of paranasal sinuses is favourable due to functional and aesthetic reasons. We report a rare case of a large primary ectopic meningioma of the paranasal sinuses in a 48-year-old woman referred to the Otolaryngology Clinic due to the incidental finding of a pathologic mass visualised on the orthopantomography picture.

Evaluation of fully biodegradable nasal packings in functional endoscopic sinus surgery – a multi-centre study.

The Aim: This work was to compare an innovative solution, i.e. a fully biodegradable nasal packing Nasopore®, with a traditional one, in the aftercare of patients subjected to functional endoscopic sinus surgery.