Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques Second Edition 2025 Edition

This fully revised and completely updated second edition provides a comprehensive overview of the fields of rhinology/skull base and obstructive sleep apnea. It summarizes all advances and describes surgical techniques using diagrammatic, photographic and video clip illustrations. The incidence of sinusitis and sleep apnea is increasing worldwide as people continue to gain weight and live in environments conductive to type 2 helper lymphocyte related disease. With that increase, we are seeing the development of better surgical techniques and technology, medical and instrumental, to help us take care of our patients. Highly experienced international faculty authors the chapters, sharing their philosophy and surgical techniques designed to prevent complications. The chapters are grouped into sinonasal/skull base and sleep apnea sections and are listed starting first with basic and then progress to cover advanced surgical techniques. Each chapter contains disease presentation, diagnostic techniques, medical management, indications for surgery, surgical techniques and tips to avoid complications.

Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques 2^nd edition will be an invaluable resource for learners of all levels and practicing otolaryngologists.

Stil Kountakis is currently a Edward S. Porubsky Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Director of Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery, and Director of the Georgia Sinus Center, Augusta University, Georgia, USA. He has served as Past President of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology-HNS. He received the 2015 Gerald S. Gussack Memorial Award of the Georgia Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery for outstanding teaching in Otolaryngology. He is Past President of the American Rhinologic Society and received the society’s 2015 Golden Head Mirror Teaching Award for teaching and for his contributions to the ARS, and the 2017 ARS Presidential Citation. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy and the International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology. Dr. Kountakis has published extensively and his research interests include pathophysiology and pathogenesis of sinusitis and polyps, medical and surgical outcomes, and allergic fungal sinusitis.

T. Metin Önerci is a Professor and Head of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. He holds important positions in a range of medical societies, including general secretary of the International Rhinologic Society, and chairperson of the Rhinology and Allergy, Sleep, and Facial Plastic Surgery Committees of the International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies. He is an honorary member of several societies and serves on the editorial boards of various journals, including Laryngoscope and European Archives of Otorhinolaryngology and is the editor of the European Journal of Rhinology and Allergy. Dr. Önerci has authored more than 200 papers in national and international journals, and numerous book chapters, and is also the author or editor of twenty books in Turkish and four in English.