Surgical enlargement of the nasomaxillary aperture and transnasal conchotomy of the ventral conchal sinus: Two surgical techniques to improve sinus drainage in horses.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate 2 surgical techniques for establishing and/or improving paranasal sinus drainage in cadaver heads and horses with sinusitis and evaluate the feasibility of postoperative transnasal sinus endoscopy.

Study design

Ex vivo study (equine cadaver heads) and case series.

Sample population

Nine adult equine cadaver heads and 8 horses with recurrent sinusitis.

Methods

For the ex vivo study, the following procedures were performed on 9 cadaver heads: preoperative and postoperative computed tomography (heads 1-6), endoscopy-guided transnasal conchotomy of the ventral conchal sinus (TCVCS) and surgical enlargement of the nasomaxillary aperture (SENMAP) on opposite sides (heads 1-3), combined TCVCS and SENMAP on both sides (heads 4-9), evaluation of si

SUBMITTER: Bach FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6767416 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature