[A modified technique for transsubmucosal maxilloethmoid sinus surgery through the inferior turbinate--transsubmucosal sinus surgery through the inferior turbinate].

In 1993, in the Journal of the Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Society of Japan, the authors published an endoscopic endonasal approach to surgery for chronic sinusitis, performing a transsubmucosal maxillectomy, ethmoidectomy and sphenoidectomy through the inferior turbinate, which the authors tentatively termed "swinging of the nasolacrimal duct and inferior turbinate." With the original technique, some bony structure was left partially exposed during resection of the mucosa in some patients, who suffered from postoperative crust formation. This technique thus required improvement.