title: [The mucociliary velocimetry test].
abstract: The mucociliary velocimetry test (M.C.V.) appreciates the functional status of the maxillary sinuses chronically affected by the way of a colorimetric index with a double T prosthesis. The patient is laying in decubitus with 10 degrees of proclivity neither general or local anesthetic. A fibroscope is passed through the "Double T", three drops of blue of methylene are set down in the sinusal cavity. The time recording starts at this moment. The route of the blue is followed with the optic are far as the ostium. A first timing T1 is recorded then, the fibroscope is located in the nasal fossa facing the ostium. When the blue appears a second timing T2 is recorded. T1 give the value of the sinusal function; T1 + T2 the value of the ostio sinusal function and T2 - T1, the value of the ostial function.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bouton
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015523:Maxillary Sinusitis / Q000503:physiopathology; D008722:Methods; D009079:Mucociliary Clearance
vernacular_title: Le test de vélocimétrie mucociliaire (V.M.C.).