This speciality shines a very focused interest on the diseases of the nasal sinuses and the skull base. Surgeons in this field have a lot of collaborations with medical, surgical, and other health services . In general the focus can be categories into Rhinology and Skull Base Disease and Tumor Management.
Rhinology and Skull Base Disease
- Rhinosinusitis (all forms – including):
- Acute, chronic, acute exacerbation of chronic, or recurrent acute
- Maxillary, ethmoid, frontal, sphenoid sinuses
- Fungal rhinosinusitis
- Invasive
- Non-invasive (extra-mucosal)
- Allergic
- Non-allerg
- Nasal Polyposis
- Mucoceles / Mucopyoceles
- Cystic fibrosis related sinus disease
- Nasal obstruction
- Nasal valve collapse
- Deviated septum
- Turbinate hypertrophy
- Disordered breathing during sleep (apnea & snoring)
- Choanal atresia
- Septal perforation
- Inhalant allergies (dust, mold, pet, weeds. grasses, trees)
- Epistaxis (nose bleeds)
- Hereditary Hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler Weber Rendu)
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks
- Encephaloceles of the anterior and middle cranial fossa
- Tumors of the nose, sinuses and anterior skull base including
- Sinus related head pain
- Disturbances of sense of smell (olfaction)
- Trauma of the nose and sinuses
- Eye Disease Related to the Sinonasal Passages
- Grave’s Dysthyroid Orbitopathy
- Orbital Abscess/Subperiosteal abscess
- Compressive Optic Neuropathy
- Epiphora (pathologic tearing of the eye)
- Granulomatous sinonasal disease
- Wegener’s granulomatosis
- Sarcoidosis
- Amyloidosis
Tumors Management
Benign Tumors
- Osteoma
- Ossifying fibroma
- Fibrous dysplasia
- Oncocytic/cylindric cell papilloma
- Inverted papilloma
- Juvenile nasal angiofibroma
- Hemangioma of pregnancy
- Giant cell tumor
- Cholesterol granuloma
- Clival Chordoma
- Meningioma
- Nasal dermoids
Malignant Tumors
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Malignant melanoma
- Adenocarcinoma
- Adenosquamous carcinoma..
- Leiomyosarcoma
- Chondrosarcoma
- Esthesioneuroblastoma
- Spindle cell carcinoma.
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma.
- Sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC)
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
- Ameloblastoma
- Metastatic cancers to the nose & sinuses
- Plasmacytoma
- Lymphoma
