부비동염에 의한 안와 합병증

Orbital complications in paranasal sinusitis have greatly decreased because of development of antibiotics. Anatomically, the paranasal sinuses are in intimate contact with the orbit, which is separated only by a thin plate of bone from the frontal sinus superiorly, the ethmoid labyrinth medially, and the maxillary sinus inferiorly. Consequently acute and chronic inflammatory diseases within the sinuses spread to the orbit and its adnexa, and orbital extension of paranasal sinusitis gives rise to periorbital reddness and swelling, rarely blindness and death.

We have studied to find effective treatments of orbital complication in paranasal sinusitis. We have get satisfactory results from 12 cases, so we report those cases with a brief review of the literatures.