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FESS is nowadays the gold standard surgical treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis not responding to medical treatment. The principal aim behind this surgical procedure was the maximum preservation of the nasal mucosal integrity, while providing optimal disease clearance. One of the recent technical developments in endoscopic sinus surgery is balloon sinuplasty.

Balloon sinuplasty is described as a less invasive technique to open the paranasal sinus ostias without injuring the surrounding mucosa, which results in reduced intraoperative bleeding and minimal mucosal damage. The objective of this work is to provide an overview of the procedure and to explain the surgical technique and its indications and limitations and to discuss the results through articles published so far about the subject. Most of the studies show that this surgical procedure is safe, feasible, and effective in selected patients and its advantages include that it is a daily surgery (outpatient basis, can be done under L.A), low time off work, rapid recovery time and it does not limit further treatment options.

Keywords: Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS), balloon sinuplasty, rhinosinusitis.

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