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Why paranasal sinuses?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

S. P. A. Blaney
S. P. A. Blaney*
Affiliation:
London
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S. P. A. Blaney Royal Ear Hospital Huntley Street London, WC1E 6AU
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Abstract

This essay attempts to address the perennial question ‘Why Paranasal Sinuses?’. In doing so it highlights the flaws in many much-favoured but ill-founded theories concerning the role of these sinuses in humans. It is concluded that the question can only be fully answered through a greater understanding of differential growth changes within the craniofacial massif.

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 104 , Issue 9 , September 1990 , pp. 690 - 693
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1990

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