Ask the Experts: An Endoscopic Potpourri

Abstract

Program Description: Rhinologic diagnostic and treatment problems commonly create dilemmas in practice. This miniseminar provides for interactive discussion of the management options and the decision rationale involved in difficult sinus diagnostic and treatment situations. A case presentation format is used with case presentations from each of the panelists, emphasizing questions with regard to differential diagnosis, evaluation, imagining, and treatment. Cases are representative of those encountered by either a general otolaryngologist or a subspecialty rhinologist, but have critical decision points for discussion. The session focuses on the decision making process, frontal sinus disease, revision surgery, and fungal sinusitis, as well as common tumors. Educational Objectives: 1) Review the surgical decision making process in chronic sinus disease. 2) Implement different imaging modalities and improved quality of interpretation for both CT and MRI images. 3) Improve the management of difficult to treat chronic rhinosinusitis.