Chronic sinusitis
This medical phrase means that you have a chronic sinus infection. Your maxillary paranasal air sinuses are inflamed and narrowed which is what is making it difficult to breathe and clear the nose of mucus.
The ethmoid refers to a bone or a sinus. The mucoperiosteum is the lining of that bone and sinus. Minimal ethmoid mucoperiosteal disease means there's a little bit of chronic sinusitis in that sinus.
what does mucoperiosteal thickening in the ethmoid air cells mean? According to www.utmb.edu it is an allergy that has cause permanent deformation in the air way."Acute Sinusitis (Mar.1997)Viral sinusitis is classically seen as slight mucoperiosteal thickening. ... In allergic rhinitis, bilateral mucoperiosteal thickening is seen, thus helping differentiating ...www.utmb.edu"Mucoperiosteal thickening can also be an early warning sign of cancer in the sinuses. The location should be watched and re-checked over time with imaging to see if it is growing larger.
Ethmoidectomy is the medical term meaning surgical removal of part of the ethmoid bone or of tissues in the ethmoid sinus.
An ethmoid is a bone in the human skeleton, situated between the eyes and the roof of the nose.
maxillary antrumand mucoperiosteal thickening of the ethmoid sinuses.
The Superior and medial nasal conchae is located in the Ethmoid Bone. So I believe the answer would be Ethmoid.
The Ethmoid Bone
Mandible, maxilla, zygomatic, nasal, lacrimal, palatine, vomer, and ethmoid. Not ethmoid, lacrimal...ethmoid is an irregular bone considered part of the 8-cranial bone set [sphenoid, ethmoid, temporal(2), frontal, occipital, parietal(2)]
The maxillae contain the maxillary sinuses, the ethmoid and sphenoid contain the ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses, respectively. ****Maxilla is a facial bone, the three cranial bones that contain sinuses are ethmoid, sphenoid and frontal.
The ethmoid has a holey plate that separates the nasal cavity from the brain. The ethmoid sinus has small cavities which allow fibers to pass.
A fractured cribriform plate can result in cerebrospinal fluid leaking into the nose and loss of sense of smell.