Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases

Concha bullosa (CB) is defined as pneumatization and the presence of air cells within the nasal turbinates. Inferior concha bullosa (ICB) is a rare anatomical variation of the lateral nasal wall, with only a handful of case reports published in the literature to date. In this article, we present two...

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Autores principales: Alkhaldi, Abdullah S, Alhedaithy, Riyadh, Alghonaim, Yazeed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34262817
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15479
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description Concha bullosa (CB) is defined as pneumatization and the presence of air cells within the nasal turbinates. Inferior concha bullosa (ICB) is a rare anatomical variation of the lateral nasal wall, with only a handful of case reports published in the literature to date. In this article, we present two additional cases of ICB and a review of the literature regarding this rare anatomical variation.
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spelling pubmed-82598932021-07-13 Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases Alkhaldi, Abdullah S Alhedaithy, Riyadh Alghonaim, Yazeed Cureus Otolaryngology Concha bullosa (CB) is defined as pneumatization and the presence of air cells within the nasal turbinates. Inferior concha bullosa (ICB) is a rare anatomical variation of the lateral nasal wall, with only a handful of case reports published in the literature to date. In this article, we present two additional cases of ICB and a review of the literature regarding this rare anatomical variation. Cureus 2021-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8259893/ /pubmed/34262817 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15479 Text en Copyright © 2021, Alkhaldi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alkhaldi, Abdullah S
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Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases
title Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases
title_full Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases
title_fullStr Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases
title_full_unstemmed Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases
title_short Concha Bullosa of the Inferior Turbinate: Report of Two Cases
title_sort concha bullosa of the inferior turbinate: report of two cases
topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8259893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34262817
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15479
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