Neusbijholtechirurgie

Someone once said that when the 'final history' of sinus surgery comes to be written, the 20th century would have to be considered as one of 'sinus butchery'. For almost eighty years, diagnosis and surgery were focused on the larger, secondary sinuses. Few people dared to approach the ethmoids, and radical surgery was the rule rather than the exception. As late as the mid-1970s, basic training in sinus surgery - like my own - included procedures w residents sometimes sarcastically called 'horren