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Nose Nasal Sinuses and Face Applied Anatomy and Physiology
Built from Behrbohm — Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases with Head and Neck Surgery

What’s inside
3 sections · 70 slides
Overview
- What this deck will teach you
Anatomy of the Nose and Sinuses
From the external framework to the paranasal sinuses
- The external nose: a framework of bone and cartilage
- Framework of the external nose
- Blood vessels of the external nose
- Venous route to the cavernous sinus
- Inside the nose: septum, vestibule, and cavity proper
- The nasal vestibule and the limen nasi
- The nasal vestibule and alar cartilage
- The internal nasal valve: the narrowest point
- The lateral wall: turbinates and meatuses
- Lateral wall: turbinates and drainage
- What drains where: reading the three meatuses
- Two linings: respiratory vs olfactory
- Nasal mucosa and the olfactory region
- The paranasal sinuses: air pockets around the nose
- The four paranasal sinuses in the facial skeleton
- How the sinuses grow: a timeline of development
- Sinus development from birth to adolescence
- The ostiomeatal complex: the shared drainage crossroads
- The ostiomeatal unit: the shared drainage channel
- The ethmoid labyrinth: the hub of sinus disease
- Anatomy of the ethmoid bone
- Ethmoid relations: thin walls, dangerous neighbours
- The maxillary sinus: largest, low floor
- The frontal sinus: variable, next to the brain
- The sphenoid sinus: deepest and most perilous
- The four sinuses at a glance
- The sinus mucosa and the ostiomeatal unit
- Blood supply of the nose: two carotid systems meet
- Arterial supply and Kiesselbach plexus
- Cavernous spaces: the nose's built-in throttle
- Lymphatic drainage: an anterior and a posterior route
- Nerve supply: sensation, autonomic control, and smell
- Autonomic and sensory nerve supply of the nasal mucosa
- Two opposing autonomic drives
- The pterygopalatine ganglion: the nose's control hub
Physiology and Pathophysiology
How the nose smells, breathes, defends, and drains
- One organ, many jobs
- The nose as an organ of smell
- The smell pathway: from a tiny patch to the cortex
- How a smell becomes a signal
- Odour molecules binding specific receptors
- Axel and Buck: the molecular logic of smell
- Smell by the numbers
- Properties and limits of the sense of smell
- When smell goes wrong: the dysosmias
- Classifying the dysosmias
- Causes of olfactory loss: sinonasal and beyond
- Smell as an early warning of systemic disease
- Pheromones and the vomeronasal organ
- The nose as a respiratory organ: shaping the airstream
- Airflow patterns through the nose
- Inspiration vs expiration, and nasal resistance
- Computational fluid dynamics: simulating nasal airflow
- Air-conditioning the air: warming and humidifying
- Cleaning the air: the nose as a filter
- The nasal mucosa as a protective organ
- The mucociliary apparatus: the nose's conveyor belt
- Immune defence: humoral and cellular
- The nose as a reflex organ: the nasal cycle
- The nose and speech
- What are the paranasal sinuses actually for?
- The vicious circle of ostial obstruction
- Pathophysiology of the blocked sinus ostium
- The vicious circle of ostial occlusion
- Three ideas to carry away
- Key takeaways
- Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases: With Head and Neck Surgery