Background and Objective: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most common chronic diseases. In the past decades, there has been an increase in fungal infections of sinuses and fungal rhinosinusitis (FRS) has been diagnosed more frequently. Knowing the fungal flora and its prevalence in CRS patients will allow a better understanding of this disease, permitting a correct diagnosis, trea...

The lining of the nose and paranasal sinuses is continuous and it would be rare for inflammation to affect one without the other. In addition, the symptoms of sinusitis, particularly chronic sinusitis, and rhinitis overlap to a large extent and it is therefore convenient to consider the two together as rhinosinusitis. Similarly, the upper respiratory tract (nose and paranasal passages) and lowe...

OBJECTIVE To assess the use of bacterial culture findings for middle meatal samples obtained via anterior rhinoscopy, in the diagnosis of adults with acute rhinosinusitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Microbial cultures were prepared for 30 adult patients with acute rhinosinusitis and suspected bacterial involvement, using samples from the nasopharynx, and from the nasal middle meatus obtained via a...

Rhinosinusitis is a very common disease worldwide and specifically in the US population. It is a common disease in children but may be underdiagnosed. Several reasons may account to the disease being missed in children. The symptoms in children are limited and can be very similar to the common cold or allergic symptoms. Cough and nasal discharge may be the only symptoms present in children. A h...

UNLABELLED Rhinosinusitis is a severe sickness and may have serious complications. Orbital complications happen more often, due to anatomical particularities and are lethal in 5% of patients. They vary from inflammatory signs to proptosis, loss of ocular motility and blindness. AIM We propose a new classification of acute rhinosinusitis complications. METHODS A review of 83 patients with CT...

The share of chronic odontogenic rhinosinusitis is 40% among all rhinosinusitis. Using automated information systems for differential diagnosis will improve the efficiency decision-making by doctors in diagnosing Therefore, this study aimed to develop an intelligent decision support system based on computer vision methods. A dataset was collected and processed, including 162 MSCT images. deep l...

This is a cross sectional study of 40 patients diagnosed with chronic rhinosinusitis using the Lanza Kennedy diagnostic criteria based on nasal endoscopy (NE), and on computer tomography (CT) of the paranasal sinuses. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the effectiveness and limitations of CT, and NE in the assessment of chronic rhinosinusitis. This study shows that CT was superior in de...

background: nasal inflammatory disorders such as chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyp are among the most prevalent complications with high socioeconomic costs. vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) plays a key role in angiogenesis and cell proliferation. in the present study the effect of vegf on the development and prognosis of chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyp was investigated. met...

Background According to EPOS, chronic rhinosinusitis with and without nasal polyps diagnoses are defined by clinical criteria, supported with endoscopy. We want to know if it is possible to make an accurate distinction between patients with and without nasal polyps based on a limited number of clinical criteria, collected by health-related quality of life questionnaires. A validated instrument ...