Purpose of the study: To describe the management of orosinusal pathology by combined transnasal endoscopy and oral combined.
Methods: The 54-year-old patient underwent a dental and otolaryngological evaluation for left odontogenic maxillary sinusitis in relation to
plausible dental follicular cyst of ectopic element 2.8. The symptoms reported at the time of access to the hospital were nasal obstruction and
nocturnal rhonchopathy.
To the ENT evaluation in videorinoscopy with rigid optics, complex deviation of the nasal septum was relevated with not any evident formations
or pathological secretions. While on inspection of the oral cavity the mucous membranes appeared unscathed. Alveolus of 1.6 previosuly extracted
was evident.
The radiological examination, facial CT, revealed the left maxillary sinus almost completely occupied by a cystic appearance, with thin calcified
walls and homogeneous content that has a dental element, probably the 2.8, which fenestrates the vestibular cortex of the lateral wall of the
maxillary sinus. This lesion erodes the medial wall of the sinus, obliterating the ostio-meatal complex and imprinting the ipsilateral ethmoidal cells.
Biohumoral tests showed normal coagulation parameters, indices of renal function, liver and ionemia.
The patient under general anesthesia and oral intubation with a combined intervention of the left anterior FESS, intrasulcular flap from dental
elements 2.7 to 2.3 with mesial releasing incision, moderate osteotomy, ectopic 2.8 extraction and enucleation of the cystic lesion with simultaneous
closure of the orosinusal communication with advancement of the Bichat adipose bolla and closure by first intention.
In the same session, the ENT moment is carried out trans nasally for total left uncinectomy, medium antrostomy with the union of the natural ostium
and the accessory ostium. Bilateral lower turbinoplasty with bipolar forceps.
The patient was then controlled after 15 days and six months, showing good healing and no signs of recurrence at the rhinoscopic check on the
physical examination of the oral cavity.
Results: based on the clinical and radiological aspect, the diagnosis of a follicular dentigerous cyst (WHO 2017) covered by a multi-layered
non-keratinized paving epithelium, with moderate chronic inflammation, including gigantocellular and cholesteric crystals, is reached from the
microbiological and histological examination. Necrotic amorphous material coexists including rare hyphae and fungal spores, with therefore
mycotic and actinomycotic super infection.
Conclusions: The combined oral and nasal intervention, allowed by the collaboration between the oral surgeon and ENT, has made it possible to
shorten the healing time and to resolve the pathology without any sign of recurrence.
Endoscopic‐assisted transantral‐endonasal approach to large dentigerous cyst of maxillary sinus
