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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1990;33(1): 93-6. |
A Radiological Study on Development of the Frontal Sinuses in Normal Korea Adults |
Yang-Gi Min, MD, and Yong Jae Kim, MD |
Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea |
韓國人 正常成人에서의 前頭洞의 發達에 관한 放射線學的 硏究 |
閔陽基 · 金容載 |
서울大學校 醫科大學 耳鼻咽候科學敎室 |
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ABSTRACT |
The size of the frontal sinus has known to be extremely variable among paranasal sinuses from complete agenesis to the abnormally large ones. Abnormally large frontal sinuses were reported by many authors as variable terms, such as pneumocele, hypersinus or pneumosinus dilatans, and the size of the frontal sinus was clinically important especially for surgeons. But in the past, the calculation of the size was limited only to the linear measurement. The authors have measured the area of normal frontal sinuses of 104 Korean adults in the routinely checked Caldwell's view with a planimeter. Bilateral frontal agenesis was 12 cases(11.5%), unilateral agenesis was 5 cases(4.8%) on the right side and 7 cases(6.7%) on the left side. Frontal sinuses larger than 3 S.D. over averages were regarded as abnormally large, and the size was
14.6cm2 on the right side, and 19.3cm2 on the left side.
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