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Frontoethmoidectomy with Sewall-Boyden reconstruction: indications, technique, and philosophy
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 400 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
|May 10, 2001
Abstract:
The Sewall-Boyden flap, as used to reconstruct a frontal recess after frontoethmoidectomy, is conceptually similar to the endoscopic Lothrop procedure for surgical access to the frontal sinus. The operative technique, indications, and philosophy are presented in this article.

