Sinonasal Flashcards
Roof of nasal cavity
Cribriform plate
Floor of nasal cavity
Hard and soft palate
Lateral wall of nasal cavity
Lateral nasal wall with attached turbinates
Postero-superior nasal bony septum
Perpendicular plate of ethmoid
Postero-inferior nasal bony septum
Vomer
Superior attachment of middle turbinate to cribriform plate
Vertical lamella
Posterior and lateral attachment of middle turbinate to lamina papyracea
Via basal lamella
Superior meatus recieves drainage from
Posterior ethmoid cells at sphenoethmoidal recess
Positioned at superior aspect of ostiomeatal complex and recieves drainage from anterior ethmoid air cells
Also protrudes inferomedially into infundibulum or hiatus semilunaris
Ethmoid bulla
Between uncinate process and ethmoid bulla, receives drainage from anterior ethmoid air cells and maxillary sinus via infundibulum
Hiatus semilunaris
Inferior meatus receives drainage from
nasolacrimal duct anteriorly
Ethmoid sinus is separated into anterior and posterior parts by
Basal lamella
Maxillary sinus drain into
Maxillary ostium to hiatus semilunaris at middle meatus
Ethmoid sinus drain anteriorly at
Hiatus semilunaris and middle meatus
Posterior drainage of ethmoid sinus
Superior meatus and sphenoethmoidal recess
Frontal recess drain into
Frontal recess into middle meatus