Alper Fatih, Karaşen R Murat, Kantarci Mecit
Department of Radiology, Atatürk University Medical School, Erzurum, Turkey.
Rhinology. 2004 Mar;42(1):38-40.
The superior turbinate was the most neglected of the turbinates in the past. With the advent of functional endoscopic sinus surgery and coronal computed tomography imaging, considerable attention has been concentrated exclusively on the lateral nasal wall anatomy, including the hidden turbinate, whose symptomatic concha bullosa is extremely rare. Only a very few cases have been reported to date. This seemingly interesting as well as rare case report is concerned with unilateral hyperpneumatization of the superior turbinate, which contacts the septum and leads to headache, associated with bilateral massive concha bullosa of the middle turbinate.
上鼻甲在过去是鼻甲中最受忽视的。随着功能性鼻内镜鼻窦手术和冠状位计算机断层扫描成像技术的出现，人们的注意力完全集中在了鼻腔外侧壁的解剖结构上，包括隐蔽的鼻甲，其症状性泡状鼻甲极为罕见。迄今为止仅报道过极少数病例。这一似乎有趣且罕见的病例报告涉及上鼻甲单侧气化过度，该气化过度的上鼻甲与鼻中隔接触并导致头痛，同时伴有双侧中鼻甲的巨大泡状鼻甲。
