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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 3 Progress in Applied anatomy of the ethmoid sinus Keywords:: Ethmoid applied anatomy Microscopic sinus surgery was nasal fields of science the most important development in recent years [1,2]. The ethmoid sinus surgery is microscopic sinus surgery in the most complex surgery, due to the ethmoid sinus space is small, adjacent to the complex anatomical relationships, gas room gasification great variation, if not familiar with the anatomy of the region will affect the smooth operation, even cause serious complications such as blindness, bleeding and cerebrospinal fluid leakage, etc. [3,4], has attracted attention of scholars at home and abroad [5-8]. To meet the conduct of endoscopic sinus surgery in recent years, there is more at home and abroad applied anatomy of the ethmoid sinus reported. The literature will now be summarized as follows: The location of an ethmoid sinus Ethmoid sinus is located in the top of the nasal cavity, ethmoid labyrinth, by the degree of gasification gas and small rooms of different composition, each side has 3-18 small gas room, gas room size, arrangement, and extending the scope of a very irregular, both sides of the very asymmetric. Ethmoid small rooms variability is large, but varying degrees of development. Well-developed ethmoid sinus, which can be extended into the frontal air room at the bottom, top or lateral sphenoid sinus, maxillary sinus and the frontal bone above the orbit, after, etc., the individual can also reach the contralateral nasal septum or the upward stretching from cockscomb [9]. 2 ethmoid sinus morphology LIU Qing-ming [10] In 100 the skull, through the level of the ethmoid bone facets observed: ethmoid sinus and cone-shaped, pointed at the front end, the end of the sphenoid sinus in front. On the whole form of the ethmoid sinus, after the former narrow width, the narrow width of the length under the cube, anteroposterior diameter is greater than the upper and lower tracks, the upper