A Computed Tomographic Diagnosis Of Paranasal Sinus Diseases

Abstract

As a typical presenting symptom in ordinary otolaryngology practice, nasal obstruction has several potential differential diagnoses. They need to go through certain tests to get a final diagnosis. For illnesses of the central nervous system, a computed tomography scan is excellent. The use of coronal CT to image the paranasal sinuses has been on the increase due to the fact that FESS necessitates a detailed plan of the sinus architecture and the degree of the illness.
Fifty individuals with headache, nasal blockage, nasal discharge, and epistaxis were enrolled in a descriptive cross-sectional observational study at the Department of Radiology at Khaja Bandanawaz University, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kalaburagi. The patients were referred from the Department of Otolaryngology. They had their CT scans analyzed. The research lasted for a whole 18 months. The age range of the patients included in this research was 18–77 years, with 24 instances falling into the 31–50 age bracket as the most prevalent. Nasal blockage was reported in 50 instances, with headache and nasal discharge following at 42 occurrences each. The DNS on the right side was more popular. The maxillary sinus was the most often affected at 92.5%, followed by the ethmoid at 59.2%, the frontal at 48.1%, and the sphenoid at 33.3%. Thirteen instances were found to have fungal sinusitis. Four of the nine instances of polyps were antrochoanal. There were three instances of neoplasms; two of them were tumors of the epithelial kind, and one was not.
The study found that when it comes to paranasal sinus illnesses, CT assessment is the way to go for diagnosis and treatment planning.