This specialty 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-allergy
- 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
