Source: Nutrition  |  Posted 9 years ago

Endoscopic modified Lothrop procedure is effective for the short-term management of recalcitrant and complicated frontal sinusitis.

The procedure is an alternative to the osteoplastic flap with frontal sinus obliteration, which has the been the gold standard for recalcitrant frontal sinusitis, explains Dr Peter John Wormald from the Section of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at the Adelaide and Flinders Universities in Australia.

Dr Wormald conducted a prospective study of 83 consecutive patients who underwent the modified Lothrop procedure. Patients had undergone a mean of six previous sinus surgeries before the Lothrop procedure. Seventeen of the patients had previously undergone frontal sinus obliteration with mucocele formation.

A primary success rate of 93% was achieved after an average follow-up of 21.9