COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PREOPERATIVE CT SCAN AND INTRAOPERATIVE ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY FINDINGS IN PATIENTS WITH SINONASAL POLYPOSIS.

Dr Cassandra Carvalho; Dr Suman Rao; Dr Kalpana Rajiv Kumar

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2017

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PREOPERATIVE CT SCAN AND INTRAOPERATIVE ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY FINDINGS IN PATIENTS WITH SINONASAL POLYPOSIS.

Dr Cassandra Carvalho, Dr Suman Rao, Dr Kalpana Rajiv Kumar

Abstract :

Sinonasal polyposis is commonly encountered in clinical practice. The provisional diagnosis is made with a clinical assessment, diagnostic nasal endoscopy and a computed tomography (CT). This study was carried out to provide a correlation between preoperative CT scan findings and intraoperative endoscopic sinus surgery findings. Statistical analysis of data was recorded from paranasal CTs of 74 patients between the age of 12 and 80 years who subsequently underwent FESS, over a period of 2 years. The most concomitant aetiology among the patients was allergy in 41 cases, based on histopathology examination. Polyps were most commonly situated in the maxillary sinus in our study. No clinical correlation was found between clinical symptoms and gender or duration of disease. CT scans provide a good amount of objectivity and its correlation to endoscopy findings are discussed in this study.