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1Department of Plastic Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract:
A 31-year-old man with frontal sinus hypertrophy was treated with an inverted frontal bone and pericraniogaleal flap. Through a coronal incision and anterior supragaleal dissection, a pericraniogaleal flap was raised down to the supraorbital rim, and the frontal bone was exposed. The protruded anterior wall of the frontal sinus was removed with a drill. The excised piece of bone was inverted and replaced and fixed with microplates. The depressed surface of the inverted bone was made full with a folded pericraniogaleal flap. We think that an inversion of the anterior wall of the hypertrophied frontal sinus and topping with a folded pericraniogaleal flap are an alternative measure to treat frontal sinus hypertrophy.
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