title: Antro-ethmosphenoidectomy.
abstract: A technique of antro-ethmosphenoidectomy has evolved over the last 50 years to provide a thorough, yet safe method of treating chronic, recurrent advanced pansinusitis. The trans-antral approach to the ethmoid labyrinth and sphenoid sinuses was first described before the turn of this century. A brief chronological history is reviewed in order to understand the development and then the abandonment of this surgery for over twenty years. This was followed by a renewed interest in the procedure conforming to the modern concepts of nasal physiology and rhinologic surgery. Because of the wide visual surgical exposure, the antro-ethmosphenoidectomy approach is most ideally adapted to pituitary, skull base and orbital decompression procedures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Irvine, California College of Medicine.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Turnbull
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Strelzow
mesh_terms: D005005:Ethmoid Sinus / Q000601:surgery*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D010036:Otolaryngology / Q000266:history; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000601:surgery*; D013101:Sphenoid Sinus / Q000601:surgery*; D014481:United States