Outcomes of middle meatal antrostomy after different surgical strategies.

Conclusion: There was no significant difference in the postoperative outcomes between different surgical options for treating chronic maxillary sinusitis (CMS).

Objective: We aimed to compare the improvement in symptoms, and changes in endoscopic and CT grade in patients undergoing different surgical management of the maxillary sinus ostium.

Methods: In 32 patients (group A), the pathologic mucosa was radically removed with a power microdebrider.

Apoptosis of septal cartilage after bilateral spreader grafts in rhinoplasty.

Objective: There are few studies on the ischemic necrosis and apoptosis of septal cartilage after using bilateral spreader grafts in rhinoplasty. We attempted to evaluate structural changes to the septal cartilage after using the bilateral spreader graft and herein propose possible involved mechanisms observed by histopathologic examination, the apoptosis index using the TUNEL assay, and ultrastructural examination using an electron microscope.

Methods: Septal cartilage between bilateral spreader grafts (group A, n  =  12), cartilage beside unilateral spreader grafts (group B, n  =  12), and normal septal cartilage (group C, n  =  12) were obtained from 36 patients who had revision rhinoplasty because of minor cosmetic dissatisfaction.