Living with chronic nose and sinus issues can feel like you have a constant cold. You may deal with ongoing congestion, nasal drainage, poor sleep, or changes in smell or taste. These symptoms can affect how you feel and function each day.
For many people, medical therapy can help manage symptoms. When medications don’t work for you, surgery performed by an ENT specialist may improve breathing, sleep, and comfort. Treatment may address nasal polyps, sinusitis, a deviated septum, or enlarged turbinates that block airflow.
If you need sinus or nasal surgery, advanced care is available close to home at WMCHealth’s Advanced ENT Services. Our team includes fellowship-trained sinus and skull base specialists (rhinologists) who use minimally invasive, evidence-based techniques. These approaches are designed to help you recover faster, breathe easier, and improve your quality of life.
Advanced Nasal Surgery at WMCHealth
As part of an academic medical center, WMCHealth rhinology and skull base surgeons have advanced fellowship training. This means you receive the latest surgical techniques and treatment options for complex conditions, including sinonasal cancers and skull base tumors.
Our specialists are nationally recognized for expert endoscopic removal of tumors involving the nose, sinuses, skull base, and orbit. Compared to open surgery, these endoscopic approaches often mean faster recovery and lower risk of serious complications for you.
Because these surgeries are complex and often require care from multiple specialists, they are not widely available at community hospitals. From repairing spinal fluid leaks to removing complex tumors using minimally invasive endoscopic techniques, we bring highly specialized care to patients across the Hudson Valley.
Complex Endoscopic Approaches
Our ENT specialists perform advanced endoscopic approaches to the:
- Anterior skull base/cranial fossa
- Planum
- Tuberculum
- Sella turcica
- Clivus
- Craniocervical junction
- Infratemporal fossa
- Pterygopalatine fissure
- Trans-orbital approaches to the orbit or anterior skull base
Team-based Care for Complex Nasal and Sinus Conditions
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Many people with advanced nasal or sinus conditions benefit from care across multiple specialties. If you have chronic sinusitis, you may also have allergies, asthma, or eczema. Your ENT specialist may work with other experts to offer treatments such as allergy immunotherapy or biologic therapies.
Care for chronic sinusitis, allergies, and asthma may involve specialists from:
- Allergy and immunology
- Pulmonology
Some nasal, sinus, orbital, or skull base tumors require highly coordinated care to achieve the best outcomes. At WMCHealth, complex cancer cases are reviewed in a weekly multidisciplinary tumor board. This allows specialists to collaborate on diagnosis and treatment planning for each patient.
Depending on your needs, your nasal, sinus, orbital, or skull base tumor care team may include experts from:
- Oncology
- Neurosurgery
- Ophthalmology
- Neuroradiology
- Head and neck surgery
- Radiation oncology
- Interventional radiology