It is a very dangerous area with respect to surgical dissection 3 11.
Roof of ethmoid sinus radiology.
The middle group are now incorporated into the anterior group.
Depending on its anterior and or posterior location they can also include nasoethmoid and sphenoethmoid mucoceles.
The ethmoid labyrinth is covered by the fovea ethmoidalis of the frontal bone and separates the ethmoidal cells from the anterior cranial fossa.
The bone plates of the two sides may be at different levels figure 1.
The ethmoid roof is primarily formed by the fovea or fossa ethmoidalis an extension of the orbital plate of the frontal bone 4 6 10.
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The anterior middle and posterior ethmoidal air cells.
The lateral lamella joins the cribriform plate to the fovea ethmoidalis.
An ethmoid mucocele is a form of a paranasal sinus mucocele involving the ethmoid air cells.
Historically the ethmoid sinuses were subdivided into 3 groups of air cells.
The anterior ethmoidal air cells drain to the hiatus semilunaris and middle meatus via the ethmoid bulla which forms parts of the ostiomeatal complex.
Ethmoid mucoceles are considered the second most commonest in location 2.