The physiological and pathophysiological aspects of the sphenoid sinus: a review

Authors

  • Manish Munjal Department of ENT and HNS, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • Suneet Sethi Department of ENT and HNS, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • Shubham Munjal Department of Physiology, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • Vidushi Gupta Department of Physiology, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • Hem Lata Badyal Department of Physiology, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • Joginder K. Sidhu Department of Physiology, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India
  • Garima Sharma Department of Physiology, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/issn.2454-5929.ijohns20205649

Keywords:

Sphenoid sinus, Physiology, Pathology

Abstract

The sphenoid sinus among the paranasal sinuses, with its deep location and obstruction at the level of its ostium, is the commonest cause of occipital or vertex headache. Limited intervention reverts the intricate mucociliary physiology of the sinus. The surgery, a sphenoidotomy, is aptly captioned, the “functional endoscopic sinus surgery”, for the Sphenoid. The unique physio-pathology of the Sphenoid sinus shall be elaborated.  

Author Biography

Manish Munjal, Department of ENT and HNS, Dayanand Medical College Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Professor and Head, Deptt of ENTHNS

References

Blaney SP. Why paranasal sinuses? J Laryngol Otol. 1990;104(9):690

Hilding 1957 Hilding AC. Ciliary streaming in the lower respiratory tract. Am J Physiol Lega Cont. 1957;191(2):404-10.

Messerklinger W. On the drainage of the human paranasal sinuses under normal and pathological conditions. 1. Monatsschrift fur Ohrenheilkunde und Laryngo-Rhinologie. 1966;100(1-2):56.

Stammberger H, Hawke M. Surgical operative technique. Essent Funct Endosc Sin Surg. 1993:172.

Weir N, Golding-wood DG. Scott-Brown’s Text book of Rhinology.

Messerklinger W. Endoscopic operations. Endoscopy of the Nose. Munich: Urban and Schazenberg. 1978;4950.

Phelps PD. Radiology of the Nose and Paranasal Sinuses. In: Mackay and Bull, editors. Scott Brown’s Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. 6th ed. London: Elsevier. 1997;4/3/2.

Mackay IS and Lund VJ. Surgical management of sinusitis. Scott Brown’s Otolaryngology, 6th ed., Butterworth Hienemann, Oxford. 1997.

Lew D, Southwick FS, Montgomery WW, Weber AL, Baker AS. Sphenoid sinusitis: a review of 30 cases. New Eng J Medic. 1983;309(19):1149-54.

Harbison JW, Lessell S, Selhorst Jb. Neuro-ophthalmology of sphenoid sinus carcinoma. Brain. 1984;107(3):855-70.

Wyllie III JW, Kern EB, Djalilian M. Isolated sphenoid sinus lesions. Laryngoscope. 1973;83(8):1252-65.

Pearlman SJ, Friedman WH, Potter GD, Lawson W, Biller HF. Isolated sphenoid sinus disease. Laryngoscope. 1989;99(7):716-20.

Hnatuk LA, Macdonald RE, Papsin BC. Isolated sphenoid sinusitis: the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children experience and review of the literature. J Otolaryngol. 1994;23(1):36.

Sethi DS. Isolated sphenoid lesions: diagnosis and management. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1999;120(5):730-6.

Metson R, Gliklich RE. Endoscopic treatment of sphenoid sinusitis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1996;114(6):736-44.

Van Alyea OE. Sphenoid sinus: anatomic study, with consideration of the clinical significance of the structural characteristics of the sphenoid sinus. Arch Otolaryngol. 1941;34(2):225-53.

Lawson W, Reino AJ. Isolated sphenoid sinus disease: an analysis of 132 cases. Laryngoscope. 1997;107(12):1590-5.

Levine H. The sphenoid sinus, the neglected nasal sinus. Arch Otolaryngol. 1978;104(10):585-7.

Klossek JM, Peloquin L, Fourcroy PJ, Ferrie JC, Fontanel JP. Aspergillomas of the sphenoid sinus: a series of 10 cases treated by endoscopic sinus surgery. Rhinology. 1996;34(3):179-83.

Schell WA. Unusual fungal pathogens in fungal rhinosinusitis. Otolaryngol Clinics North Am. 2000;33(2):367-73.

Jahrsdoerfer RA, Ejercito VS, Johns MM, Cantrell RW, Sydnor JB. Aspergillosis of the nose and paranasal sinuses. Am J Ootolaryngol. 1979;1(1):6-14.

Henick DH, Kennedy DW. Fungal sinusitis. Advanced endoscopic sinus surgery. St Louis: Mosby. 1995:69-80.

Lee LA, Lee TJ, Huang CC. Endoscopic sinus surgery for solitary abducens palsy in patients with isolated sphenoid sinus disease: report of four cases. Chang Gung Medic J. 2002;25(10):689-94.

Isaacs RS, Donald PJ. Sphenoid and sellar tumors. Otolaryngol Clinics North Am. 1995;28(6):1191-229.

Marple BF. Allergic fungal rhinosinusitis: surgical management. Otolaryngol Clinics North Am. 2000;33(2):409-18.

Muneer A, Jones NS. Unilateral abducens nerve palsy: a presenting sign of sphenoid sinus mucoceles. J Laryngol Otol. 1997;111(7):644-6.

Nugent GR, Sprinkle P, Bloor BM. Sphenoid sinus mucoceles. J Neurosurg. 1970;32(4):443-51.

Patel A, American Academy of Otolaryngology, Bulletin. 1999;18(2).

Downloads

Published

2020-12-24

Issue

Section

Review Articles