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Septal deviations may compromise key areas like the ostiomeatal unit, which can cause impaired drainage of the sinuses.
Ethmoid sinus and ostiomeatal unit were opaque in 61% of patients (Table 1).
Review of the charts of the 33 CRS patients showed that 39 NTM isolates belonging to 10 Mycobacterium species were recovered from samples from the ostiomeatal unit or paranasal sinuses (Table 2).
Additionally, these data provide evidence that the symptomatic improvements following balloon expansion within the ostiomeatal unit to treat medically refractory inflammation of the maxillary sinuses, either alone or with concomitant anterior ethmoid disease, are similar.
(2) Clefted middle turbinates theoretically can lead to ostiomeatal unit obstruction, but they likely also exist asymptomatically.