Main description:

This comprehensive volume with contributions by over 30 of the world's leading rhinologists will help to shed light on this difficult topic.

Prof. Kountakis and Prof. Senior are well-known ENT-surgeons in the U.S. Prof. Draf is one of the most senior and most recognized ORL/Head- and Neck surgeon in Germany and world-wide.

Thorough discussions of anatomy and pathophysiology of a variety of frontal sinus diseases provide a background for in-depth chapters on aspects of both medical and surgical management. A variety of surgical approaches are discussed, including the latest endoscopic techniques, as well as more traditional open and microscopic approaches.

Heavily illustrated, this volume will be a "must have" for the rhinologist managing disease in the frontal sinus.

Contents:

History of Frontal Sinus Surgery.- Radiologic Anatomy of the Frontal Sinus.- Surgical Anatomy and Embryology of the Frontal Sinus.- Acute Frontal Sinusitis.- Chronic Frontal Rhinosinusitis: Diagnosis and Management.- Microbiology of Chronic Frontal Sinusitis.- Orbital Complications of Frontal Sinusitis.- CNS Complications of Frontal Sinus Disease.- Frontal-Orbital-Ethmoid Mucoceles.- Pott's Puffy Tumor.- The Frontal Sinus and Nasal Polyps.- Allergy and the Frontal Sinus.- The Role of Fungus in Diseases of the Frontal Sinus.- Frontal Headache.- Pediatric Frontal Sinusitis.- Frontal Sinus Fractures.- Frontal Sinus Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks.- Benign Tumors of the Frontal Sinuses.- Frontal Sinus Malignancies.- The Endoscopic Frontal Recess Approach.- Revision Endoscopic Frontal Sinus Surgery.- Image-Guidance in Frontal Sinus Surgery.- "Above and Below" FESS: Simple Trephine with Endoscopic Sinus Surgery.- Endonasal Frontal Sinus Drainage Type I-III According to Draf.- Endoscopic Modified Lothrop Procedure.- Frontal Sinus Rescue.- Endoscopic Trans-septal Frontal Sinusotomy.- Frontal Sinus Stenting.- Complications of Frontal Sinus Surgery.- Open Approaches.- Osteoplastic Frontal Sinusotomy and Reconstruction of Frontal Defects.