Question
Identify the instrument shown in the photograph below ,which is used in ENT surgeries.
A. Freer’s elevator.
B. Ballenger’s swivel knife.
C. Heermann mallet.
D. Tilley’s antral harpoon.
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Ans: D. Tilley’s antral harpoon.
Tilley’s antral harpoon.
USES-
- Intranasal antrostomy for the drainage of chronic maxillary sinusitis.
- Opening is made in the medial wall of the maxillary antrum.
- Puncture is made just below the genu of inferior turbinate,where the bone is thinnest.
- As an adjunct procedure during caldwell- luc surgery.