Etmoiditis

Etmoiditis. The causes are the same as in inflammation of the maxillary sinuses. Acute etmoiditis with lesion of the bone walls is observed mainly with scarlet fever. Unfavorable outflow conditions due to mucosal edema can lead to the formation of empyema. Disease of the anterior cells of the latticed maze proceeds usually simultaneously with the defeat of the maxillary and frontal sinuses, and the posterior ones - with inflammation of the main sinus.

Symptoms, course. Headache, pressing pain in the root of the nose and nose. Children often notice edema of the internal parts of the upper and lower eyelid, hyperemia of the conjunctiva on the corresponding side. In some cases, acute etmoiditis is combined with severe neuralgic pains. Allocations are initially serous, and then purulent. Purulent discharge in the middle nasal passage is a sign of lesion of anterior latticed cells, in the upper nasal passage - inflammation of the posterior. Sharply reduced sense of smell, significantly hindered nasal breathing. The body temperature is increased. The average shell is in most cases enlarged, hyperemic. With a difficult outflow of pus, the inflammatory process can spread to the ophthalmic cellulose. In such cases, the eyelids swell, and the eyeball deviates to the outside (empyema of the anterior lattice cells) or protrudes and deviates to the outside (empyema of the posterior trellis cells).