Frontal Sinus Disease: Contemporary Management

Preface
F r o n t a l Si n u s D i s e a s e :
Contemporary Management

Jean Anderson Eloy, MD, FACS Michael Setzen, MD, FACS, FAAP
Editors

Rhinosinusitis affects an estimated 1 in 7 adults in the United States. Otolaryngol-

ogists are intimately involved in the care of patients with rhinosinusitis and other
upper airway inflammatory conditions through medical management and proce-
dures such as endoscopic sinus surgery. The frontal sinus is considered the
most difficult of the paranasal sinuses to manage. Frontal sinusitis is typically
treated medically, with surgical interventions reserved for the most recalcitrant
cases. Both private practitioners and academic physicians manage frontal sinusitis.
Over the last two decades, new advances in medical management, newer under-
standing of the sinonasal anatomy, improved surgical instrumentation and optical
devices, and newer surgical techniques to approach the frontal sinus have brought
significant changes in the understanding and overall management of frontal sinus
disease.
In this issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America devoted to frontal sinus
disease, we have attempted to present and discuss a comprehensive approach to
the management of frontal sinus disease. We consider it a great honor to guest-edit
this important issue on “Frontal Sinus Disease: Contemporary Management” and

Michael Setzen: Speaker’s Bureau for Meda and Advisory Board for Merck and Lannett (not
related to the current subject).

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hope that this issue will be valuable to otolaryngologists managing a variety of frontal
sinus pathologies.

Jean Anderson Eloy, MD, FACS

Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Center for Skull Base and Pituitary Surgery
Neurological Institute of New Jersey
Department of Neurological Surgery
Department of Ophthalmology
and Visual Science
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
90 Bergen Street, Suite 8100
Newark, NJ 07103, USA
Michael Setzen, MD, FACS, FAAP
Chief Rhinology Section
North Shore University Hospital
Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
Department of Otolaryngology
New York University School of Medicine
New York, NY 10016, USA

Michael Setzen Otolaryngology, PC

600 Northern Boulevard, Suite 312
Great Neck, NY 11021, USA
E-mail addresses:
jean.anderson.eloy@gmail.com (J.A. Eloy)
michaelsetzen@gmail.com (M. Setzen)