Diseases of the Sinuses

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Anatomy and Physiology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Anatomy and Anatomical Variations of the Paranasal Sinuses

      • Roger Peynegre, Pierre Rouvier

      Pages 3-32

   3. Physiology of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses

      • Philip Cole

      Pages 33-51

   4. Human Nasal Host Defense and Sinusitis

      • Michael A. Kaliner

      Pages 53-60

3. Imaging

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. Imaging Techniques

      • Mark L. Benson, Patrick J. Oliverio, S. James Zinreich

      Pages 63-83

4. Clinical Disease

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Microbiology of Acute and Chronic Sinusitis in Children and Adults

      • Ellen R. Wald

      Pages 87-96

   3. The Role of Allergy in Sinus Disease

      • Zdenek Pelikan

      Pages 97-165

   4. Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Subacute Sinusitis in Children and Adults

      • Gary A. Incaudo, L. Gretchen Wooding

      Pages 167-196

   5. Diagnosis and Medical Management of Recurrent and Chronic Sinusitis in Children

      • Sheldon C. Siegel

      Pages 197-214

   6. Diagnosis and Medical Management of Recurrent and Chronic Sinusitis in Adults

      • Howard M. Druce

      Pages 215-233

   7. Ancillary Medical Approaches to the Treatment of Sinusitis

      • Christopher Chang, Stanley Naguwa

      Pages 235-246

   8. Orbital and Intracranial Complications of Sinusitis in Children and Adults

      • Katherine A. Kendall, Craig W. Senders

      Pages 247-271

   9. Mucosal Swellings, Mucoceles, and Polyps in Paranasal Sinuses

      • Michel R. Wayoff

      Pages 273-290

   10. Tumors of the Paranasal Sinuses

       • Valerie J. Lund, David J. Howard

       Pages 291-310

   11. Nasal Polyposis

       • Guy A. Settipane, Russell A. Settipane

       Pages 311-322

   12. Sinusitis and Asthma

       • Georges M. Halpern, Gary A. Incaudo

       Pages 323-338

   13. Fungal Sinusitis

       • Harold S. Novey

       Pages 339-347

The comprehensive nature of this text will appeal To many physicians, the study of sinus disease to a wide range of physicians including generalists, reflects a discipline only slightly less interesting otolaryngologists, and allergists. Family physi­ than a Johnson and Johnson gauze pad, a pursuit cians, internists, pediatricians, and allergists will followed by dilettanti and eccentric professors. To each profit from having a single source that pro­ others, it represents a subsection of an undefined vides an in-depth review of topics pertaining to discipline that crosses barriers of internal medi­ sinus diseases. The otolaryngologist will benefit cine, pediatrics, allergy, chest disease, and oto­ from having a single text that provides a detailed laryngology. To patients, sinus problems are discussion of the many ancillary medical problems synonymous with headaches and a chronic source of morbidity. Yet few physicians have been pre­ that influence sinus function and, therefore, surgi­ cal outcome. We hope that all readers will enjoy the pared, until recently, to do much more than pre­ international choice of authors whose topics have scribe antibiotics, intranasal steroids, antihistamines, been purposely allowed to overlap in an effort to and commiserate for the misery involved. Fortu­ provide the broadest possible scope of informa­ nately, this picture shows significant signs of tion. We expect Diseases of the Sinuses to serve as impending remission. The disciplines of clinical immunology, allergy, and otolaryngology have the foundation of an ever-stronger ongoing effort to combat sinus disease.

• Surgery
• allergy
• anatomy
• asthma
• endoscopy
• physiology
• sinus

A detailed, comprehensive text on basic science topics relevant to paranasal sinus disease; on imaging methods; on clinical disease (varieties of acute and chronic sinusitis, infections, and smell disorders) and its diagnosis, interpretation, and treatment; and on surgical management. There is more here than most internists are likely to need, but some sections, such as that on the interpretation of headache that may arise from the nose or sinuses, may give insights into unusual problems.-Annals of Internal Medicine

• Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, University of California, Davis

  M. Eric Gershwin, Gary A. Incaudo

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