Background: Orbital, intracranial, and osseous extra-sinus complications can arise from bacterial or fungal sinusitis. Odontogenic sinusitis (ODS) can cause extra-sinus complications, but its prevalence remains poorly characterized.
Objective: To determine the frequency of ODS as a cause of operative extra-sinus infectious complications and describe clinical features of all complicated sinusitis cases.
Int Forum Allergy Rhinol
December 2022
Background: Craniopharyngiomas have traditionally been treated via open transcranial approaches. More recent, endoscopic endonasal approaches have been increasingly used; however, there has been limited evaluation of long-term outcomes for this approach.
Methods: A retrospective review was performed to analyze patients with pediatric craniopharyngioma undergoing endonasal endoscopic resection from 2012 to 2020.
Silent sinus syndrome refers to a constellation of spontaneous and progressive enophthalmos and hypoglobus in the setting of asymptomatic ipsilateral maxillary sinus atelectasis. Although its exact etiopathogenesis is not completely understood, obstruction of the ostiomeatal complex appears to be the inciting event. Most of the reported cases of silent sinus syndrome involve one maxillary sinus.
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