CT-Scan Finding in Chronic Rhinosinusitis at Babylon Province | ||
| Medical Journal of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2016, Pages 0-0 | ||
| Author | ||
| Saad Abd Al-Raheem Al-Juboori | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Chronic rhinosinusitis is a common disease in which a number of factors play a role like anatomical and environmental factors. This study identifies these factors by CT scan and the frequency of each.This study was designed to find Computed Tomography scan (CT scan) findings of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. This is a prospective and descriptive clinical study that is conducted at department of Otolaryngology /Al-Hilla Teaching Hospital over a period of eleven months (from June 2013-May 2014) on 50 patients (mean age of 28 year, most of them in 18-25 year age group making male to female ratio=1.5:1 for CRS patients that 60% reside in rural area) with clinical diagnosis of chronic rhinosinusitis. The distributions of sex, residence, sinus involvement and the percentage of CT-scan variants (in chronic rhinosinusitis patients) were studied.The most involved sinus was Maxillary sinus and least involved was Sphenoid sinus. High rates of anatomical and mucosal variants present in CT-scan of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis High percentage of anatomical and mucosal variation seen by CT scan in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Chronic Rhinosinusitis; CT scan; endoscopic sinus surgery | ||
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