Meet the editors

Dr. Balwant Singh Gendeh is a senior consultant ENT surgeon with subspecialty interest in rhinology (allergies, sinonasal diseases, endoscopic sinus, anterior and ventral skull base surgery, and functional and cosmetic nasal surgery). He was an ENT registrar at the Royal Infirmary, Middlesbrough, UK, in 1993 and subsequently a JW Fulbright scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1997. During his Fulbright experience,

he also worked at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago, USA, with subspecialty interest in rhinology and aesthetic nasal surgery. Dr. Gendeh retired as a consultant ENT surgeon at the National University of Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC) in 2014, and presently is a visiting professor at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at UKMMC. He has also been a resident ENT consultant at Pantai Hospital Kuala Lumpur since 2014. Due to his vast contribution to academia in research and clinical publications, he was elected as a Diploma of the Fellowship Academy of Medicine Malaysia in October 2000, International Fellow of the Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in April 2004, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia in April 2016, and Fellow of the Malaysian Scientific Association in September 2017.

Assoc. Prof. Mirjana Turkalj, MD, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Zagreb. Since 1998 she has been a pediatric specialist, and from 2005 a subspecialist in allergology and clinical immunology, and pulmonology. She was elected scientific assistant professor in 2015, and acquired the title of associate professor in 2017. She works as a pediatric subspecialist at Srebrnjak Children's Hospital in Zagreb, where she is also Deputy Director,

Head of the Clinical Allergology Center of the Croatian Ministry of Health, and Head of the Department for Allergology, Immunology, and Pulmonology. Mirjana is a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zagreb, and University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, and Catholic University of Croatia. She is a member of the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology, the European Respiratory Society, the Croatian Medical Association, the Croatian Society for Pediatric Pathology, the Croatian Society for Health Ecology, and many others. Her medical interests are immunological mechanisms in asthma and allergic diseases, pathomechanisms of allergen-specific immunotherapy, the role of infections in the development of allergies, and prevention of allergic diseases in children. She has written more than 190 scientific papers with more than 400 citations, and 16 book chapters.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Marco Capelli*

Caused by Infectious Agent(s)?

*by Shrikant Phatak and Richa Agrawal*

Aneurysmal Bone Cyst in Sino-nasal Region *by Zeinab AlQudehy and Lena Telmesani*

Refractory Rhinosinusitis *by Yi-Tsen Lin and Te-Huei Yeh*

**Section 3**

Allergic March

**Preface III**

Allergic Rhinitis **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 17**

Sinusitis **27**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 73**

Dental Related Sinusitis **89**

**Chapter 7 91**

*by Ramit Maoz-Segal, Diti Machnes-Maayan, Irena Veksler-Offengenden,* 

Chronic Sinusitis: The Empiric Treatment Strikes Back: Is CRS Directly

*by Alexander Nowicki, Natalie Nowicki, Stella Nowicki, Alfred Samet, Michal Michalik, Roger Su, James K. Fortson and Bogdan Nowicki*

Rhinosinusitis: How Common Are Anatomical Variations Responsible?

*by Blaženka Kljaić Bukvić, Mario Blekić and Marija Pečnjak*

Local Allergic Rhinitis: An Old Story but a New Entity

*Shirly Frizinsky, Soad Hajyahia and Nancy Agmon-Levin*

Use of Nasal Cytology in Diagnosis of Sinonasal Disorders
