Main description:

This book offers a selection of pertinent patient case-presentations in the field of rhinology, anterior skull base and facial plastics surgery. It further explores the evidence-based management of simple to complex clinical presentations. Each chapter start with the diagnosis and progresses from medical or surgical treatment to the post-operative follow up of the presented clinical condition. The various case reports are concise; however, sufficiently comprehensive and cover conditions from emergencies in adult and paediatric rhinology, to elective care, sino-nasal and anterior skull base neoplasms systemic diseases affecting the nose and paranasal sinuses, and underpinned by illustrations, imaging, and intra-operative photographs to emphasize the clinical approach.

Rhinology and Anterior Skull Base Surgery - A Case-based Approach is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing insights for exam candidates, trainees, general practitioners, rhinologists and otolaryngologists with an interest in anterior skull base, facial plastics and rhinology.

Contents:

Foreword.- Introduction.- Emergencies in Rhinology.- Epistaxis - conservative management.- Epistaxis- surgical management.- Facial and nasal trauma.- Orbital cellulitis.- Cavernous sinus thrombosis.- Acute fungal rhinosinusitis.- Pott's puffy tumour.- Septal haematoma.- Nasal foreign body.- Inhalation burns.- Rhinitis.- Allergic rhinitis-adult.- Allergic rhinitis - persistent.- Allergic rhinitis- failed medical treatment.- Vasomotor rhinitis.- Occupational rhinitis.- Rhinitis medicamentosa.- Gustatory rhinitis.- Rhinitis in endocrine disorders.- Atrophic rhinitis.- NARES.- Rhinosinusitis.- Acute rhinosinusitis.- CRS without polyps- medical treatment.- CRS without polyps- surgical treatment.- CRS with polyps- medical treatment.- CRS with polyps- surgical treatment.- Non-invasive fungal rhinosinusitis.- Isolated sinusitis-balloon sinuplasty.- Sinonasal mucocele.- Concha bullosa.- Silent sinus syndrome.- Facial plastics.- Functional septorhinoplasty- assessment.- Functional septorhinoplasty- basic techniques.- Aesthetic septorhinoplasty- special considerations.- Open septorhinoplasty- basic techniques.- Nasal valve surgery.- Cleft palate and septorhinoplasty.- Prominent ears.- Facial flaps- around the nose.- Facial flaps- around the ear.- Facial flaps- around the lips.- Skin cancer- BCC.- Skin cancer- SCC.- Skin cancer- Melanoma.- Rhinophyma.- Anterior skull base surgery.- CSF leak- ethmoids.- CSF leak- sphenoid.- CSF leak- frontal sinus.- Pituitary adenoma.- Clival chordoma.- Meningoencephalocele.- Sinonasal tumours.- Inverted papilloma.- SCC of the paranasal sinuses.- Adenocarcinoma of the paranasal sinuses.- SNUC of the paranasal sinuses.- Melanoma of the paranasal sinuses.- Chondrosarcoma of the paranasal sinuses.- Olfactory neuroblastoma.- Osteoma.- Fibrous dysplasia.- Sinonasal ossifying fibroma.- Nasopharyngeal cancer.- Lymphoma.- Paediatric rhinology.- Acute rhinosinusitis.- Chronic rhinosinusitis.- Allergic rhinitis.- Septal deviation.- Anthrochoanal polyp.- Cystic fibrosis.- Choanal atresia.- Pyriform aperture stenosis.- Meningoencephalocele.- Glioma.- Dermoid.- Adenoidal hypertrophy.- Paediatric facial/nasal trauma.- Olfactory disorders.- Anosmia- conductive.- Anosmia- sensorineural.- Cacosmia.- Phantosmia.- Taste disorders.- Systematic diseases affecting the nose and the paranasal sinuses.- Grannulomatosis with polyangitis GPA.- Churg Strauss disease.- Relapsing polychondritis.- Sarcoidosis.- Syphilis.- HIV.- Cocaine abuse.- Tuberculosis.- Orbital pathology.- Epiphora.- Dacryocystitis.- Optic nerve compression.- Exopthalmos.- General rhinology.- Septoplasty - standard approach.- Septoplasty- endoscopic approach.- Turbinate hypertrophy- DITS.- Turbinate hypertrophy-turbinoplasty.- Septal lesion.- Septal perforation - surgical repair.- Septal perforation- septal button.- Nasal vestibule infection.- Post- operative complications.- Skull base injury.- Orbital injury.- Septal abscess.- Post adenoidectomy haemorrhage.- Orbital haematoma.- Septorhinoplasty complications.- Glossary.