Diseases of the Sinuses : A Comprehensive Textbook of Diagnosis and Treatment

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. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Anatomy and Anatomical Variations of the Paranasal Sinuses....Pages 3-32 Physiology of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses....Pages 33-51 Human Nasal Host Defense and Sinusitis....Pages 53-60 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Imaging Techniques....Pages 63-83 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Microbiology of Acute and Chronic Sinusitis in Children and Adults....Pages 87-96 The Role of Allergy in Sinus Disease....Pages 97-165 Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Subacute Sinusitis in Children and Adults....Pages 167-196 Diagnosis and Medical Management of Recurrent and Chronic Sinusitis in Children....Pages 197-214 Diagnosis and Medical Management of Recurrent and Chronic Sinusitis in Adults....Pages 215-233 Ancillary Medical Approaches to the Treatment of Sinusitis....Pages 235-246 Orbital and Intracranial Complications of Sinusitis in Children and Adults....Pages 247-271 Mucosal Swellings, Mucoceles, and Polyps in Paranasal Sinuses....Pages 273-290 Tumors of the Paranasal Sinuses....Pages 291-310 Nasal Polyposis....Pages 311-322 Sinusitis and Asthma....Pages 323-338 Fungal Sinusitis....Pages 339-347 Rhinocerebral Mucormycosis....Pages 349-355 Sinus Disease in Cystic Fibrosis....Pages 357-365 Immunity, Infection, and Nasal Disease....Pages 367-379 Autoimmune-Mediated Sinus and Midfacial Diseases....Pages 381-402 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Rhinopathic Headaches....Pages 403-423 Smell Disorders....Pages 425-450 Rhinomanometry....Pages 451-468 Upper Airway Endoscopy....Pages 469-485 Front Matter....Pages 487-487 Sinusitis in Children....Pages 489-499 Sinusitis in Children....Pages 501-512 Sinusitis in Adults....Pages 513-526 Soft Tissue Masses of the Paranasal Sinuses....Pages 527-545 Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery....Pages 547-561 Complications and Long-Term Sequelae of Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery in Children and Adults....Pages 563-576 Erratum....Pages 591-591 Back Matter....Pages 577-589

This most comprehensive review of both the medical and surgical aspects of sinus disease available in a single source brings to the practicing physician new concepts, insights, and experience that can be beneficially applied to the diagnosis and treatment of patients. Topics range from the standard diagnosis and treatment of acute sinusitis in children and adults to state-of-the-art discussions of imaging techniques, unique material on smell disorders, the role of allergies in sinus disease, sinus headaches, and the clinical applications of rhinomanometry. Additional chapters cover a whole host of subjects related to the nose and sinuses. Written by a team of expert North American and European doctors, it offers allergists, family practitioners, internists, otolaryngologists, and pediatricians a global, state-of-the-art review of the treatment and management of sinus disease.

The book contains predominantly black-and-white illustrations, with some color illustrations.

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