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Relationship of chronic ethmoidal sinusitis, maxillary sinusitis, and ostial permeability controlled by sinusomanometry: statistical study.

Three hundred sixty-seven successive patients suffering from chronic maxillary sinusitis (CMS) were thoroughly examined by means of maxillary sinusoscopy, a CT scan of the facial sinuses, and sinusomanometry (SMM). Ninety-eight cases of unilateral CMS, 269 cases of bilateral CMS, and 444 chronic ethmoidal sinusitis (CES) cases were evaluated. According to SMM, the maxillary ostia were divided into two groups: 1. maxillary ostium patency (MOP) group and 2. the maxillary ostium nonpatency (MONP) group. The unilateral and bilateral pathologies were separately analyzed so as to minimize the effects of general or systemic causes on the results. MONP is, in both bilateral and unilateral groups, significantly linked with the presence of ethmoidal sinusitis (P < 10(-6); P = .026), while the correlation between MOP and the ethmoid status does not appear to be significant in either group. Thus, there seems to be a close relationship between CES and maxillary ostial dyspermeability in cases of CMS.

Belgium

Maxillary sinus hypoplasia masquerading as chronic sinusitis.

Maxillary sinus hypoplasia is a common condition that may be misdiagnosed as chronic sinusitis. Although hypoplasia can usually be seen on conventional sinus films, computed tomography may be necessary, as in the cases described by the authors in this article.

Adult

[Clinical, radiographic and endoscopic evaluation of the maxillary sinus after maxillary osteotomy].

36 osteotomies performed between 1982 and 1988 involved opening the maxilla. Postoperative clinical, radiographic and endoscopic follow-up revealed that the majority of the patients had no or only minor pathological alterations of the maxillary sinuses. Sinuscopy showed only 2 maxillary sinuses to have more extensive mucosal alterations. Remarkably, it was particularly the osteosynthesis material protruding into the maxillary sinus that was surrounded by or overgrown with non-irritated mucosa.

Endoscopy

Cancers of the maxillary sinus.

Maxillary sinus cancers are rare as compared with cancers of other sites. Because the onset is insidious, they are at an advanced stage at diagnosis and therefore present a therapeutic challenge for local control. Traditionally, treatment has been surgery or irradiation, or a combination of the two. Local control and survival, however, remains poor. Numerous chemotherapeutic agents have shown activity against squamous cell cancers of the head and neck. In several studies the use of either neoadjuvant or concurrent chemotherapy has improved local control and survival when compared with historical controls. Randomized studies are needed to confirm the benefit of chemotherapy over the standard forms of surgical and radiation therapy.

Adenocarcinoma

Surgical treatment of chronic hyperplastic sinusitis and maxillary sinus empyema of oral/dental origin.

Twelve patients with maxillary hyperplastic sinusitis or maxillary sinus empyema of oral/dental etiology have been treated according to a modified surgical technique. The treatment was initiated by several oro-nasal irrigations and drainage facilitated by an intact semilunar hiatus. This was followed by a surgical procedure including conservative curettage of inflamed sinus mucosa, adequate closure of the oro/antral communication, with establishment of a postoperative oral antrostomy. This antrostomy, through the canine fossa, was established by a vacuum drain, enabling continuous postoperative irrigation and aspiration. The rationale for this technique is discussed. A total of 12 patients operated according to this technique are described. Complete clinical and radiographic healing in all patients was observed over a postoperative period ranging from 6-12 months.

Adult

[Clinical feature of odontogenic maxillary sinusitis--symptomatology and the grade in development of the maxillary sinus in cases of dental maxillary sinusitis].

Odontogenic maxillary sinusitis may occur by draining of an apical dental root abscess into the maxillary sinus. It has been reported that the disease is usually frequent in cases aged of the second and third decades. In most of them, either the first or second molar tooth is assumed to be the origin of the disease. As clinical characteristic symptoms, it is mentioned that an acute unilateral sinusitis appears since the onset and the patient complains a fetid purulent nasal discharge from an early stage. The symptom and its clinical time course in 43 cases with dental maxillary sinusitis, who had been treated by surgical procedures in ENT Clinic in Kitasato University Hospital during past 14 years from 1972 to 1985, were studied retrospectively. The size of the affected maxillary sinus in each case of the disease was measured from the X-ray films. An influence of development of the maxillary sinus to the occurrence of dental sinusitis was discussed by comparing the sizes of the maxillary sinuses in both the group of the disease and the group of simple unilateral maxillary sinusitis.

Adolescent

Microbial flora of nose and paranasal sinuses in chronic maxillary sinusitis.

Nasal secretions, maxillary sinus aspirates and specimens of the maxillary sinus mucosa were collected in 44 patients aged between 25 and 60 affected by mono- or bilateral chronic maxillary sinusitis, in order to establish the best sampling technique for microbiological purposes, the most frequently involved bacteria and the physiopathological mechanism underlying chronic maxillary disease. The sinusal mucosa resulted to be the most reliable sample as it reduces contamination and microbial variability. Anaerobic bacteria were isolated in nasal swab (15.6%), in maxillary sinus aspirates (30.4%) and in maxillary sinus mucosa (36.4%) of maxillary sinusitis patients. In controls anaerobic bacteria were isolated only in one nasal swab (2.3%), while they could not be isolated in maxillary sinus aspirates and in maxillary sinus mucosa. The presence of anaerobic bacteria in chronic maxillary sinusitis patients and their absence in controls seem to confirm that anaerobic microorganisms represent the main pathogenetic agents of chronic maxillary sinusitis. The possible physiopathological mechanisms underlying chronic maxillary sinus disease are finally discussed.

Adolescent

The usefulness of irrigation of the maxillary sinus in children with maxillary sinusitis on the basis of the Water's X-ray.

The authors studied 80 children with sinusitis, all treated with amoxycillin and a decongestive preparation. The authors reached the conclusion that in 30 out of 80 children the third standard X-ray becomes normal without further treatment. In the remaining 50 children the usefulness of irrigation of the maxillary sinus was studied: one group was treated with antroscopy and sinuscopy while the second group did not receive this treatment (control). In both groups control X-rays were performed after three weeks. There was no significant difference between the two groups, which indicates that irrigation does not lead to a better cure. A correlation of 71% was found between X-ray findings and antroscopic findings. As a first treatment antibiotics are recommended.

Anti-Bacterial Agents

[Comparative microbiological, macro- and microscopic and x-ray findings in iatrogenic perforation of the maxillary sinus depending on the time of its lancing].

To determine whether the inflammation afflicting the sinus mucosa shortly after oroantral communication is due to an injury or an infection, microbiological studies of two biopsy preparations each were performed simultaneously in 20 patients with the diagnosis: radix in antro. As a rule, notwithstanding the time of oroantral communication aerobe micro-organisms corresponding to the local conditions of oral and nasal flora. Primary asepsis of the sinus mucosa being assumed, an infection of the sinus maxillary has to be taken into account only one hour after the dislocation of a root of the tooth into the sinus maxillary. After six hours the infection will be followed by an inflammatory reaction.

Humans

Measurement of velocity of air flow in the sinus maxillaris.

Anemometry with the hot wire and hot film technique previously described, enables the rhinologist to record slow and rapidly changing air flow in the maxillary sinus. The advantages and disadvantages of this method are considered. Anemometry together with manometry may be designated sinumetry and used as a diagnostic procedure following sinuscopy in chronic maxillary sinus disease. The value of the function from velocity of time allows the estimation of flow-volume in the sinus. Furthermore, the method is useful to evaluate the optimal therapy to restore ventilation in the case of an obstructed ostium demonstrated before and after surgical opening in the inferior meatus.

Humans

[The value of maxillary sinus irrigation in children with maxillary sinusitis using the Waters film].

Eighty children with chronic sinusitis receiving a conservative treatment were followed. They found that without any further therapy the Waters view of 30 children became normal. The usefulness of irrigation of the maxillary sinus was studied in the other 50 children. In one group of 25 children a sinus endoscopy and sinus irrigation was performed. In a control group of another 25 children no further treatment was performed. A comparison between the Waters view and sinus endoscopy is also included in the study. The authors found little difference in the treatment results in the two groups. Furthermore, when the Waters view is normal, then exists little chance of finding a pathological mucous membrane during sinus endoscopy. In doubt the clinical picture is most important. The control of the roentgenogram should be performed one month after the first one. Antroscopy is better for the diagnosis but in view of its traumatic aspect and the finding that it does not result in a better therapeutic response, the authors advise sinus irrigation only in problematic cases.

Anti-Bacterial Agents

Penetration of erythromycin stearate into maxillary sinus mucosa and secretion in chronic maxillary sinusitis.

The penetration of oral erythromycin stearate (Abboticin), administered in a dosage of 500 mg three times a day, into the maxillary sinus mucosa and secretion was studied in 15 patients (22 sinuses) operated on for chronic maxillary sinusitis. The average concentration in serum was 2.3 microgram/ml, 1.2 microgram/ml in secretion, and 1.8 microgram/ml in mucosa. These concentrations are highly effective against diplococci and most aerobic and anaerobic streptococci (MIC value 0.06 microgram/ml) but not against Haemophilus influenzae (MIC value for 80% of 2 microgram/ml).

Administration, Oral

[Tomography of the maxillary sinus].

The maxillary sinuses were studied roentgenographically and tomographically in 108 patients (with intact sinuses) and in 16 anatomical preparations of the cranium. It has been established that the main features of the laminar picture of the maxillary sinuses can be determined by two main properties of tomography as a method: the possibility to lead the portions of the sinus osseous walls of greater-length as compared with conventional roentgenography out to the edge-forming zone due to oblique course of the ray beam, and vise versa, disappearance of outlines of these walls in those sections where they are considerably inclined in relation to the roentgen film plane. A description of the laminar roentgen-anatomical picture of the maxillary sinuses in naso-frontal, nasomental and lateral projections is presented. It is stresses that in each of these projections several main types of the laminar picture of the maxillary sinuses can be detected, characterizing different depth of sections.

Humans