Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) has become one of the most common surgical techniques performed by otolaryngologists with significant data demonstrating its efficacy in managing patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). However, despite this initial success, patients may continue to present with recurrent symptoms and approximately 10–15% of them will require revision surgery. Failure of FESS may have many different causes which include inappropriate patient selection and preparation, comorbidities like cystic fibrosis and Samter’s triad, insufficient surgical skills or anatomical variations that have not been addressed adequately. Two inverse European techniques were introduced in the 1980s. The one promoted by Messer–klinger, who practiced the anterior-to-posterior approach, another one, developed by Wigand who performed posterior-to-anterior dissection, opens the sphenoid ostium or removes the anterior wall of the sphenoid sinus and ends with a total ethmoidectomy. Hereby in RESS we start dissection in posterior-to-anterior fashion by following a structured approach in the identification of the fixed landmarks to allow quick and easy orientation to the skull base and medial orbital wall to avoid the complications.

Surgical Instructions in Revision Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: Pearls and Pitfalls

Castelnuovo P.;Battaglia P.;
2022-01-01

Abstract

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) has become one of the most common surgical techniques performed by otolaryngologists with significant data demonstrating its efficacy in managing patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). However, despite this initial success, patients may continue to present with recurrent symptoms and approximately 10–15% of them will require revision surgery. Failure of FESS may have many different causes which include inappropriate patient selection and preparation, comorbidities like cystic fibrosis and Samter’s triad, insufficient surgical skills or anatomical variations that have not been addressed adequately. Two inverse European techniques were introduced in the 1980s. The one promoted by Messer–klinger, who practiced the anterior-to-posterior approach, another one, developed by Wigand who performed posterior-to-anterior dissection, opens the sphenoid ostium or removes the anterior wall of the sphenoid sinus and ends with a total ethmoidectomy. Hereby in RESS we start dissection in posterior-to-anterior fashion by following a structured approach in the identification of the fixed landmarks to allow quick and easy orientation to the skull base and medial orbital wall to avoid the complications.
2022
2020
Functional endoscopic sinus surgery; Revision sinus surgery; Sphenoid ostium; Total ethmoidectomy; Wigand technique
Baban, M. I. A.; Castelnuovo, P.; Hadi, M.; Karligkiotis, A.; Battaglia, P.; Shawkat, A.
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