title: [Clinical, radiographic and endoscopic evaluation of the maxillary sinus after maxillary osteotomy].
abstract: 36 osteotomies performed between 1982 and 1988 involved opening the maxilla. Postoperative clinical, radiographic and endoscopic follow-up revealed that the majority of the patients had no or only minor pathological alterations of the maxillary sinuses. Sinuscopy showed only 2 maxillary sinuses to have more extensive mucosal alterations. Remarkably, it was particularly the osteosynthesis material protruding into the maxillary sinus that was surrounded by or overgrown with non-irritated mucosa.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie der Universitätskliniken Köln.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grunenberg
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Gerlach
mesh_terms: D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008439:Maxillary Diseases / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000473:pathology*; D010027:Osteotomy
vernacular_title: Klinische, radiologische und endoskopische Befunde der Kieferhöhle nach Oberkieferosteotomien.