When treatments for kids with chronic sinus problems fail, surgery is often an option. Traditional sinus operations may require packing and tissue removal. They can be hard on adults and even harder ...

For patients with chronic sinusitis and nasal polyps, nasal endoscopic surgery can remove polyps in a shorter time, with less intraoperative blood loss compared with traditional open sinus surgery, ...

PORTLAND, Ore.-- Adults with chronic rhinosinusitis —a debilitating inflammation of the nasal passages that lasts for months and keeps coming back — report significantly improved quality of life ...

Endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) provides significantly better disease-specific quality of life at 6 months than long-term, low-dose treatment with the macrolide antibiotic ...

Subjective — but not objective — olfactory improvements in patients who underwent endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps were maintained up to 6 months after surgery, ...

Sinuses are interconnected, hollow spaces located in the skull that connect to the nasal passages. They help filter the air we breathe and act as another level of immune defense. Sinuses are lined ...