Endoscopic sinus surgery

Surgeons performing endoscopic sinus procedures view the operative field on a monitor, and that picture has no depth. Peter-John Wormald, an otolaryngologist affiliated with Adelaide University and Flinders University in Australia, warns that this flatness makes it easy to lose orientation. A wrong move can damage the orbit and its contents, the optic nerve, or the cavity of the skull, and in rare, extreme cases the knee.

This textbook is built around anatomy and surgical method rather than general overview. Wormald describes techniques that are mostly his own, and most of them have been evaluated in peer-reviewed journals. The accompanying disk presents a range of anatomical variations so readers can practise mentally reconstructing a three-dimensional structure before the same anatomy appears on the video.