Yánez GC, López AA, Rodríguez IA, Camelli RV, Nurko BB

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 137-141
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ABSTRACT

Although the ethmoid is the most addressed bone in nasal endoscopic procedures, few studies have been conducted documenting its anatomic variations. Most of the time, surgeons perform a large anterior ethmoidectomy, a procedure so extense that does not allow a detailed view of it’s anatomy. Using minimally invasive surgical techniques and image guided surgery we have found anatomic variations of the ethmoid sinus that if proven to have a functional implication on the nasal physiology, it may change the actual rationale for functional endoscopic sinus surgery of the ethmoid.

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