The surgery of frontal sinus infection.
A clinical and surgical review of 37 patients treated for acute and chronic frontal sinusitis at Groote Schuur Hospital during the 6-year period 1967-1972, is presented. The mode of clinical presentation of this disease and its complications are discussed, and the surgical management of frontal sinus disease as practised at this hospital is described.
D000038:Abscess / Q000209:etiology; D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005005:Ethmoid Sinus / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000209:etiology; D005626:Frontal Sinus / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009078:Mucocele / Q000209:etiology; D010000:Osteitis / Q000209:etiology; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000209:etiology; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation; D014207:Trephining