Onodi cells are important to identify preoperatively because the optic nerve traverses the roof of these cells.
Posterior ethmoid roof.
An onodi cell is a posterior ethmoid cell that lies superior and or lateral to the sphenoid.
The ethmoid bone is a single midline bone that forms the roof and lateral walls of the upper nasal cavity the upper portion of the nasal septum and contributes to the medial wall of the orbit figure 7 11 and figure 7 12.
It is located at the roof of the nose between the two orbits.
The cubical bone is lightweight due to a spongy construction.
Using this same reference point the mean vertical distance to the natural sphenoid ostium sphenoid roof and sphenoid floor was 2 76 2 80 mm 12 18 3 20 mm and 5 94 2 94 mm respectively.
The ethmoid bone is one of the bones that make up the orbit of the eye.
From greek ethmos sieve is an unpaired bone in the skull that separates the nasal cavity from the brain.
The mean maxillary sinus to posterior ethmoid height ratio was.
The posterior ethmoid skull base was 14 08 3 03 mm.
Intracranially the ethmoidal canals open on the suture between the orbital part of the frontal bone and the cribriform plate.