Le rôle des sinus maxillaires dans la parole est très controversé. Dès le XVIIème siècle, Bartholinus soutient que les sinus sont essentiels pour la résonance phonatoire, théorie reprise par Howell (1917) mais réfutée par Wegner (1955). Blanton & Biggs (1969) et Blaney (1990) indiquent tous les deux...
This book discusses selected topics on the anatomy of paranasal sinuses and related conditions, providing insight into advancements in the field. The first section covers morphological aspects of the maxillary sinus, infectious causes of acute and chronic sinusitis, posterior ethmoidal artery, and p...
Objective. This paper describes a patient with left hemifacial pain elicited by the use of a CPAP mask. Case Report. A 74-year-old man was referred with a history of pain in the left maxillary sinus related to the use of his CPAP interface, thereby prohibiting the use of the latter. Computed tomogra...
INTRODUCTION: Lymphoepithelial carcinoma of the maxillary sinus is a very rare malignancy and it can be difficult to make a pre-operative diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 72-year-old Caucasian woman presented to our facility with an isolated right-side epistaxis that had been present for three months...
Metallic foreign bodies are rarely found in the maxillary sinus, and usually they have a dental origin.Potential complications related to foreign bodies include recurrent sinusitis, rhinolith formation, cutaneous fistula,chemical poisoning, facial neuralgic pain and even malignancies.Two main surgic...
Les progrès technologiques permettent de réutiliser l'un des premiers modes connus d'échographie : le mode A, explorant en visée axiale et suivant une représentation "pic d'amplitude en fonction réelle du temps distance". A condition de se borner à une question de type binaire dès l'étape clinique :...
Myxoid tumors of the soft tissue are a heterogeneous group of lesions with significant differences in behavior, from being totally harmless to malignant tumors with metastasizing potential. We describe the unusual case of a 21-month-old boy who developed a paranasal low-grade myxoid neoplasm with re...
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