FESS (Sinus) Surgery in Mumbai

Let us understand various reasons why doctor recommends Sinus surgery:

• Chronic sinusitis (condition wherein cavities near nasal passage become inflamed) which does not get cured in spite of medical treatment
• Sinusitis that recurs again and again
• Nasal polyposis
• (painless growth of benign tissues around sinus or in the lining of nose)
• Antrochoanal polyps (polyps that develop around mucus membrane)
• Sinus mucoceles (cystic masses that affect sinuses)
• Elimination of tumors
• In case of leakage of Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) – fluid that is found in spinal cord and brain
• Orbital decompression (eg, Graves ophthalmopathy) - partial or complete removal of eye socket
• In case of optic nerve getting decompressed
• To help with Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR)
• To cure Choanal atresia (congenital defect in which nasal passage is blocked)
• To remove foreign body
• To control Epistaxis (bleeding from nose)

The above mentioned points are some of the reasons why FESS is performed.

To diagnose need for FESS, CT scan procedure may be employed. Sinus surgery procedure does not take much time. It gets completed within few hours and patient can return home either on the next day of the surgery or one day after surgery. It depends on severity of FESS procedure and complications involved.