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Why is mastoiditis potentially more dangerous than paranasal sinus infection?
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Why is Mastoiditis potentially more dangerous than a paranasal sinus infection?
It is in the bone while the sinus infection is only in the tissues. Being in the bone it has more potential to spread and it causes more damage.
What is sinus situs?
Sinusitis-is inflammation of the paranasal sinuses, which maybe due to infection.
How an infection in the nasopharynx can also result in an infection in the paranasal sinuses and the middle ear?
They are all connected. The nasopharynx is connected posterior and inferiorly to the paranasal sinuses and is connected to the middle ear by the auditory (Eustachian) tubes. The mucous membranes of the nose, paranasal sinuses, pharynx, and middle ear are all connected by ducts. Infections can spread through all those areas.
Is sinusitis an infection of the nasal cavity?
Sinusitis is inflammation or infection of the lining of the paranasal sinuses. There are no sinuses in the nasal cavity itself, rather they surround the nose and are joined to the nasal cavity via small orifices called ostia.
What is the difference between a cold and a sinus infection?
A cold is a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) and sinus infection or sinusitus is Inflammation of one of the paranasal sinuses.
What is behind the nasal cavity?
paranasal
What is the names of the major paranasal sinuses?
paranasal sinus include frontal sinus, the maxillary sinus, the ethmodial sinuses, and the spheniodal sinus.
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Which bone would you find the paranasal cavity in?
nasal
What structure affects the quality of voice?
Paranasal Sinuses
What paranasal sinus surrounds the pituitary gland?
Sphenoidal sinus
What is sinopharyngitis?
Infection of the sinuses and upper throat. Doctor gave me Omnicef. I'm on my 2nd day of treatment. BAD sore throat, cough, nasal ick.
