This is a disease that has the symptom of chronic inflammation of the sinuses. One of the complications of the disease is poor drainage, which can lead to sinus infections, pressure, and headaches.
Mucoperiosteal reaction = sinus wall thickening. Typically this is secondary to chronic sinus opacification (Chronic rhionosinusitis).
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.
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.
It means there is fluid in that sinus. You have a right & a left maxillary sinus. Sometimes one can be worse than the other or only one can be infected.
paranasal sinus include frontal sinus, the maxillary sinus, the ethmodial sinuses, and the spheniodal sinus.
The maxillary sinus
well the definition of the word Lavage means to "wash out an organ" so lavage of the maxillary sinus mean to wash out the maxillary sinus.
The maxillary sinus
No mastoid and maxillary sinus are two different bones
The maxillary sinuses are one of 4 sets of air filled sinuses in the face. The right maxillary sinus sits to the right of your nose. Sinuses are lined with mucosal tissue and a polyp is mucosa that has overgrown into a ball like shape.
paranasal sinus include frontal sinus, the maxillary sinus, the ethmodial sinuses, and the spheniodal sinus.
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