The risks of sinus cyst surgery include cerebrospinal fluid leakage from the nose, loss of vision, and intraoperative bleeding. Different types and regions of sinus cyst surgery have different risk profiles.
1. Cerebrospinal fluid leakage: If the frontal sinus cyst has destroyed the posterior wall and adhered to the dura mater, the surrounding tissues may be damaged during the process of stripping the cyst, resulting in cerebrospinal fluid leakage.
2. Loss of vision: In the process of biting off the wall of the cyst during the operation of sieve sinus cyst, the orbital wall may be damaged, and the orbital tissues, such as optic nerve, intraocular rectus muscle and other structures, may be mistakenly injured, causing the risk of loss of vision and impaired eye movement.
Pterygoid sinus cysts, if intraoperative scraping of the mucosa of the sinus, may injure the meninges at the base of the skull, the optic nerve, the internal carotid artery and other important structures, resulting in leakage of cerebrospinal fluid, optic nerve damage and vision loss or even blindness, and intense intraoperative hemorrhage after internal carotid artery injury.
3. Bleeding: maxillary sinus cyst, found in the operation of the sinus structure deformity, can be mistakenly injured deformity development of blood vessels and produce intraoperative bleeding.
Patients in need of surgery, should relax and avoid excessive tension, most of the surgical risks can be avoided, in the preoperative period should be actively communicating with the surgeon, fully understand the information related to surgery, with the treatment.