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How to “Read” a CT Scan: Some brief instructions on reading sinus CT scans: black is air; white is bone; gray is “soft tissue,” or everything else – brain, eyeball, cheek tissue, thickened sinus lining, or snot, or even pus. Warning … Danger, Will Robinson … Complications of sinusitis are
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I want to tell y’all a little story about a sugar – Xylitol. Cool name. Sounds a little futuristic. In my mind, any name with X’s or Z’s sounds like something from a 1950’s scifi movie. Maybe an alien name. First, to see the full image, click on the image
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Biofilm The role of biofilms in chronic rhino-sinusitis (CRS) was recently reviewed on this blog. If we accept that biofilm-forming bacteria cause chronic rhino-sinusitis …. How can we use this information to treat our sinusitis? First, physical forces are needed to remove some biofilms. For some people, this means surgical removal of
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In a Panic: A few years ago, an otolaryngologist from a children’s hospital in another state called in a panic to ask me if they could send a 3-year-old boy to me by helicopter (they had heard that I was a “sinus guy”). They described a very ill little boy
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