Full Description
The comprehensive nature of this text will appeal To many physicians, the study of sinus disease to a wide range of physicians including generalists, reflects a discipline only slightly less interesting otolaryngologists, and allergists. Family physi than a Johnson and Johnson gauze pad, a pursuit cians, internists, pediatricians, and allergists will followed by dilettanti and eccentric professors. To each profit from having a single source that pro others, it represents a subsection of an undefined vides an in-depth review of topics pertaining to discipline that crosses barriers of internal medi sinus diseases. The otolaryngologist will benefit cine, pediatrics, allergy, chest disease, and oto from having a single text that provides a detailed laryngology. To patients, sinus problems are discussion of the many ancillary medical problems synonymous with headaches and a chronic source of morbidity. Yet few physicians have been pre that influence sinus function and, therefore, surgi cal outcome. We hope that all readers will enjoy the pared, until recently, to do much more than pre international choice of authors whose topics have scribe antibiotics, intranasal steroids, antihistamines, been purposely allowed to overlap in an effort to and commiserate for the misery involved. Fortu provide the broadest possible scope of informa nately, this picture shows significant signs of tion. We expect Diseases of the Sinuses to serve as impending remission. The disciplines of clinical immunology, allergy, and otolaryngology have the foundation of an ever-stronger ongoing effort to combat sinus disease.
Contents
I. Anatomy and Physiology.- 1 Anatomy and Anatomical Variations of the Paranasal Sinuses: Influence on Sinus Dysfunction.- 2 Physiology of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses.- 3 Human Nasal Host Defense and Sinusitis.- II. Imaging.- 4 Imaging Techniques: Conventional Radiography, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance, and Ultrasonography of the Paranasal Sinuses.- III. Clinical Disease.- 5 Microbiology of Acute and Chronic Sinusitis in Children and Adults.- 6 The Role of Allergy in Sinus Disease: Children and Adults.- 7 Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Subacute Sinusitis in Children and Adults.- 8 Diagnosis and Medical Management of Recurrent and Chronic Sinusitis in Children.- 9 Diagnosis and Medical Management of Recurrent and Chronic Sinusitis in Adults.- 10 Ancillary Medical Approaches to the Treatment of Sinusitis.- 11 Orbital and Intracranial Complications of Sinusitis in Children and Adults.- 12 Mucosal Swellings, Mucoceles, and Polyps in Paranasal Sinuses: Pathophysiological Implications.- 13 Tumors of the Paranasal Sinuses.- 14 Nasal Polyposis: Clinical Spectrum and Treatment Approaches.- 15 Sinusitis and Asthma: Associations, Influences, and Principles of Management.- 16 Fungal Sinusitis: Pathogenesis and Treatment.- 17 Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis.- 18 Sinus Disease in Cystic Fibrosis.- 19 Immunity, Infection, and Nasal Disease.- 20 Autoimmune-Mediated Sinus and Midfacial Diseases.- 21 Rhinopathic Headaches: Referred Pain of Nasal and Sinus Origin.- 22 Smell Disorders: Pathogenesis, Evaluation, and Treatment.- 23 Rhinomanometry.- 24 Upper Airway Endoscopy.- IV. Surgical Management.- 25 Sinusitis in Children: Principles of Surgical Management.- 26 Sinusitis in Children: An Overview of Nonendoscopic and Endoscopic Techniques.- 27 Sinusitis in Adults: Principlesof Surgical Management and Overview of Techniques.- 28 Soft Tissue Masses of the Paranasal Sinuses: Principles of Surgical Management and Overview of Techniques.- 29 Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery.- 30 Complications and Long-Term Sequelae of Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in Children and Adults.
