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1528598

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-10-20
pubmed:abstractText
Vacuum disorders of the paranasal sinuses are well described. Patients with facial pain in the distribution of the infraorbital nerve are often labelled as suffering from a "vacuum maxillary sinusitis" and empirically treated by intranasal antrostomy. A variety of mechanisms have been postulated for the production of symptoms in this condition, but all ignore the fact that the maxillary sinus is a relatively insensitive structure. This article introduces a dehiscence of the bony infraorbital nerve canal within the antrum as an anatomic variant and suggests that it may provide the anatomic basis for vacuum sinusitis in the presence of a small natural ostium. Definitive diagnosis is made by outpatient antroscopy, and surgical treatment takes the form of a middle or inferior meatal antrostomy. Persistent symptoms may benefit from an infraorbital neuropexy to provide added protection to the exposed nerve.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0194-5998
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
107
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
21-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Infraorbital nerve dehiscence: the anatomic cause of maxillary sinus "vacuum headache"?
pubmed:affiliation
ENT Department, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article