title: [Isolated sphenoid sinus disease (an analysis of 18 cases)].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the diagnosis and reasonable treatment for the disease of isolated sphenoid sinus.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighteen cases with disease of isolated sphenoid sinus who undergone endoscopic sinus surgery were studied.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Fifteen cases with sphenoid sinusitis(including 2 cases with acute inflammation, 3 cases with chronic inflammation, 8 cases with cyst, 2 cases with mycosis), 3 cases with malignant tumor. 18 cases were cured by nasal endoscopy surgery without complication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Headache is the optima to occurrence of manifestation in patients with isolated sphenoid sinus disease. Besides, there are other symptoms including the lesion of eyesight, bloody nasal discharge and cranial nerve paralysis. CT scan, MRI and nasal endoscopy provide effective method for its diagnosis. In a word, nasal endoscopy surgery is a safe and convenient for the disease of isolated sphenoid sinus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, People's Hospital, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060.
authors.forename: Yonggang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Zezhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Jianfei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sheng
authors.forename: Yuzhen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010254:Paranasal Sinus Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013101:Sphenoid Sinus / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed