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THE RADICAL OPERATIVE TREATMENT OF THE POSTERIOR GROUP OF THE UPPERNASAL ACCESSORY SINUSES 1
Author(s) -
Brown R. Graham
Publication year - 1939
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1939.tb02840.x
Subject(s) - medicine , sinus (botany) , anatomy , meninges , surgery , pathology , botany , biology , genus
Summary 1. The author emphasizes the importance of the work done by Onodi and later more extensively by Óickworth in giving us a comprehensive pathology of sinus disease and its frequently associated changes in the surrounding bone, meninges, pituitary body and stalk and the adjacent vessels, the cerebral vessels and the brain tissue itself. 2. The logical outcome of such important, findings is that more radical operative work should be performed in chronic nasal accessory sinus disease. 3. Two operations have been described that offer a satisfactory means of approach to the cells in question, that is, the Ferris Smith and the transantral radical operations. 4. It is essential that the operator be sound in his anatomy and thoroughly efficient in his technique before undertaking such operations.