Aerosinusitis

Aerosinusitis
Other names	Sinus barotrauma
Paranasal sinuses.
Specialty	Emergency medicine, diving medicine
Treatment	medicine

Aerosinusitis, also called barosinusitis, sinus squeeze or sinus barotrauma is a painful inflammation and sometimes bleeding of the membrane of the paranasal sinus cavities, normally the frontal sinus. It is caused by a difference in air pressures inside and outside the cavities.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}