Variant anatomy of nasal turbinates: supreme, superior and middle conchae bullosae, paradoxical superior and inferior turbinates, and middle accessory turbinate. 2015

Nicoleta Măru, and Mugurel Constantin Rusu, and Mihai Săndulescu
Division of Anatomy, Faculty of Dental Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania; mugurel.rusu@umf.ro.

Multiple anatomical variants were encountered during a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) study of the nasal cavity of a 43-year-old male patient. These were mostly related to the nasal turbinates, suggestive for an unusual development of ethmoturbinals. Pneumatized turbinates were observed: bilateral supreme, superior, and middle concha bullosa. There were bilateral paradoxically curved superior turbinates, as well as a unilateral paradoxically curved inferior turbinate. There was also found a unilateral accessory middle turbinate, presenting as a medially bent uncinate process. Due to the presence of the Santorini's concha, the natural ostium of the sphenoidal sinus was medial to it, and was not directly related to the superior turbinate. Such variants, alone or in combination, should be documented prior to surgical procedures, endoscopic or microscopic, by rhinologists and neurosurgeons, prior to various sinonasal or skull base approaches. Patients should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, as the Vesalian anatomy could not apply to all.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007091 Image Processing, Computer-Assisted A technique of inputting two-dimensional or three-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer. Biomedical Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Processing,Digital Image Processing,Image Analysis, Computer-Assisted,Image Reconstruction,Medical Image Processing,Analysis, Computer-Assisted Image,Computer-Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Analyses,Image Analyses, Computer-Assisted,Image Analysis, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Biomedical,Image Processing, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Digital,Image Processing, Medical,Image Processings, Medical,Image Reconstructions,Medical Image Processings,Processing, Biomedical Image,Processing, Digital Image,Processing, Medical Image,Processings, Digital Image,Processings, Medical Image,Reconstruction, Image,Reconstructions, Image
D008297 Male Males
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D014420 Turbinates The scroll-like bony plates with curved margins on the lateral wall of the NASAL CAVITY. Turbinates, also called nasal concha, increase the surface area of nasal cavity thus providing a mechanism for rapid warming and humidification of air as it passes to the lung. Nasal Concha,Conchae Nasales,Conchae Nasale,Nasal Conchas,Turbinate
D054893 Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Computed tomography modalities which use a cone or pyramid-shaped beam of radiation. CAT Scan, Cone-Beam,Cone-Beam CT,Tomography, Cone-Beam Computed,Tomography, Volume Computed,CT Scan, Cone-Beam,Cone-Beam Computer-Assisted Tomography,Cone-Beam Computerized Tomography,Volume CT,Volume Computed Tomography,Volumetric CT,Volumetric Computed Tomography,CAT Scan, Cone Beam,CAT Scans, Cone-Beam,CT Scan, Cone Beam,CT Scans, Cone-Beam,CT, Cone-Beam,CT, Volume,CT, Volumetric,Computed Tomography, Cone-Beam,Computed Tomography, Volume,Computed Tomography, Volumetric,Computer-Assisted Tomography, Cone-Beam,Computerized Tomography, Cone-Beam,Cone Beam CT,Cone Beam Computed Tomography,Cone Beam Computer Assisted Tomography,Cone Beam Computerized Tomography,Cone-Beam CAT Scan,Cone-Beam CAT Scans,Cone-Beam CT Scan,Cone-Beam CT Scans,Scan, Cone-Beam CAT,Scan, Cone-Beam CT,Scans, Cone-Beam CAT,Scans, Cone-Beam CT,Tomography, Cone Beam Computed,Tomography, Cone-Beam Computer-Assisted,Tomography, Cone-Beam Computerized,Tomography, Volumetric Computed
D063405 Anatomic Variation Peculiarities associated with the internal structure, form, topology, or architecture of organisms that distinguishes them from others of the same species or group.

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