Roof Of Ethmoid Sinus Radiology

The ethmoid roof is primarily formed by the fovea or fossa ethmoidalis an extension of the orbital plate of the frontal bone 4 6 10.

Roof of ethmoid sinus radiology.

The lateral lamella joins the cribriform plate to the fovea ethmoidalis. The anterior ethmoidal air cells drain to the hiatus semilunaris and middle meatus via the ethmoid bulla which forms parts of the ostiomeatal complex. Historically the ethmoid sinuses were subdivided into 3 groups of air cells. Objective we evaluated the extent of asymmetry evident in paranasal sinus computed tomography ct scans of turkish patients without sinusitis in the ethmoid roof.

An ethmoid mucocele is a form of a paranasal sinus mucocele involving the ethmoid air cells. Ethmoid mucoceles are considered the second most commonest in location 2. The anterior middle and posterior ethmoidal air cells. Our data contribute to the body of knowledge on the subject.

The very thin horizontal cribriform plate lamina cribrosa of the ethmoid bone is bounded laterally by the vertical lateral lamella. This page provides a gallery of images that presents the anatomical structures found on orbit ct. It is a very dangerous area with respect to surgical dissection 3 11. Materials and methods we retrospectively studied multiplanar reformatted ct images of the paranasal sinus 1 mm sections from 110 patients 50 male 60 female.

The bone plates of the two sides may be at different levels figure 1.