title: Why paranasal sinuses?
abstract: This essay attempts to address the perennial question 'Why Paranasal Sinuses?'. In doing so it highlights the flaws in many much-favoured but ill-founded theories concerning the role of these sinuses in humans. It is concluded that the question can only be fully answered through a greater understanding of differential growth changes within the craniofacial massif.
authors.affiliation: Royal Ear Hospital, London.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Blaney
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000254:growth & development; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010256:Paranasal Sinuses / Q000502:physiology*; D012886:Skull / Q000254:growth & development