The ethmoid sinus (one of six sets of sinuses) is part of the paranasal sinus system and is located between the nose and eyes. It is very small at birth and becomes walnut-sized during puberty.

Treatment might include surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy. Although ethmoid sinus cancer starts in the sinuses, it can spread from the nasal cavity to other parts of the body.

For example, if you have a T2, N0, M0 cancer of the ethmoid sinus, you have a tumour that has begun to grow into other parts of the ethmoid sinuses, the lymph nodes are clear and there is no spread of ...

Stage 2 If you have stage 2 cancer of the ethmoid sinus, the tumour has grown into other parts of the ethmoid sinus, or into both the nasal cavity and ethmoid sinus. It may have grown into the bones ...

However, if ethmoid cancer has metastasized, or spread to other parts of the body, only 43 to 52 out of 100 people will surpass five years of survival.

Naso-orbital-ethmoid (NOE) fractures constitute a very complex group of fractures with regards to maxillofacial trauma. The NOE complex has a very delicate and intricate anatomical structure, and ...

Stage 3: Cancer has spread to any of these areas: base of skull, eye socket, tissues under the skin, or ethmoid sinuses; or the cancer has spread to one lymph node smaller than 3 centimeters. Stage 4 ...

Front (anterior) border: The longest of the vomer’s edges, the upper half of the anterior border meets the perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone, a complex, central bone of the cranium.

Case Series Published: 09 December 2016 Pseudodacryocystitis: paediatric case series of infected atypical ethmoid air cells masquerading as recurrent dacryocystitis A Mohite, T Jenyon, B Manoj, S ...