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s lining, he also removes the lining then uses a diamond drill to eliminate errant cells in the immediate underlying bone. Patients take antibiotics and anti-inflammatory agents and regularly irrigate their sinuses in the following weeks. One of the 18 study patients had a cerebral spinal fluid leak, which was repaired endoscopically.

"Patients with large tumors have had no real alternative," Dr. Kountakis says. "Large tumors require big, destructive surgery to be removed and, even when you do that, you cannot reassure the patient that the tumor will not come back. So you create huge morbidity. With the endoscopic approach, I also cannot guarantee that with the first procedure I am going to cure the patient. I can guarantee that I will follow the patient persistently with the endoscope and if a tumor is found, we'll get it."

Dr. Mark J. Jameson from the University of Virginia Health System Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery is co-author of the study.

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Contact: Toni Baker
tbaker@mcg.edu
706-721-4421
Medical College of Georgia
5-Oct-2005

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