Currently, the only indication for the Caldwell-Luc procedure is a mass in the maxillary sinus such as tumor or osteoma that can not be removed endoscopically through the middle meatus.

For many years, surgery for sinusitis attempted to allow drainage through the creation of a nasoantral window in the inferior meatus, with the thought that gravity would force mucus through this ...

The reimbursement rates for many ASC procedures have benefited and will benefit under the new Medicare payment system. One such procedure seeing a noticeable reimbursement boost is endoscopy with ...

Middle Meatal Antrostomy: A surgical technique to enlarge the maxillary sinus drainage pathway via the middle meatus, facilitating the removal of polyps and improving sinus ventilation.

4 The estimated total expenditures associated with sinusitis were $3.5 billion in 1996. 5. Pathogenesis. rhinosinusitis. The 4 pairs of sinuses include the maxillary, ethmoid, frontal, and ...

The patient’s score on the SNOT-22 questionnaire was 42, indicating a moderate-to-severe impact on her quality of life. Physical examination showed polypoid mucosal changes within the middle meatus .

Hope for sinus sufferers, Middle East experts say. ... “The functional endoscopic sinus surgery or FESS removes chronically inflamed membranes or polyps that block sinus drainage using ...

An exhalation system with fluticasone was shown to significantly reduce nasal polyp score at 4 and 16 weeks compared with placebo, with improvements also observed in several patient-reported outcomes.

Otherwise innocuous bacteria can cause deadly infections when people have surgery or fall ill. To prevent trouble, patients sometimes have their bodies scrubbed clean of Staphylococcus aureus. But ...

The Stanford crew needed a tiny swab and an endoscope to take samples from the middle meatus, a wet mucus-producing area halfway up the nose, and the sphenoethmoidal recess, way up in the roof of ...