FRONTAL-SINUS OSTEOMA - COMPLETE REMOVAL VIA ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY AND FRONTAL-SINUS TREPHINATION

Endoscopic sinus surgery has improved our understanding of normal sinus physiology and enabled us to provide better surgical treatment of sinus disease. A method for removal of frontal sinus osteomas was sought that would be less invasive and more physiologic than the conventional osteoplastic flap procedure. Endoscopic sinus surgery has been combined with conventional frontal sinus trephination to achieve total osteoma removal while maintaining normal sinus mucociliary flow. Two successive patients have been treated in this manner with gratifying results.