Endoscopic sinus surgery has enjoyed impressive success curing chronic disease in sinuses and has virtually replaced the Caldwell-Luc procedure for correction of problems with the maxillary sinus.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the management of the maxillary sinus in chronic rhinosinusitis ... The rationale for these procedures, developed in a pre-antibiotic era, may be re-examined in the context ...

This minimally invasive procedure, known as functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), not only ... including the maxillary, ethmoid, frontal, and sphenoid sinuses, although not all patients ...