Computed Tomography of Paranasal Sinus Pathologies with Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery/Nasal Endoscopy Correlation

Abstract

ABSTRACT A prospective study conducted on 50 patients in Sri Guru Ram Das (SGRD) Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, India, suffering from paranasal sinus diseases correlating the findings of computed tomography (CT) using Siemens somatom emotion 6 slice CT machine with diagnostic nasal endoscopy or functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Infection of the paranasal sinuses is very common. Surgical clearance of these chronically infected sinuses while maintaining their ventilation and drainage is the treatment of choice. To achieve this goal, there should be some diagnostic modality which guides us towards exact diagnosis and safe intervention. Computed tomography proves to be the most reliable method of preoperative assessment of patients undergoing FESS as it delineates the extent of the disease, define any anatomical variants and relationship of the sinuses with the surrounding important structures. Thus, providing a road map for sinus surgery. In our study, most patients were in the 3rd and 4th decades of their life with equal disease incidence in males and females. The most common sinus involved was anterior ethmoid sinus while sphenoid sinus was least commonly involved. Commonest pattern of inflammation was sinonasal polyposis followed by osteomeatal unit pattern. On correlating CT diagnosis with final diagnosis, chronic sinusitis has 86% sensitivity and 96.5% specificity. Polyps have sensitivity of 96.15% and specificity of 95.83%. Again for fungal sinusitis CT has lower sensitivity of 71.4% and specificity of 93.02%. For diagnosing benign and malignant lesions CT has 100% sensitivity, specificity, could be due to small number of masses evaluated. This study proved that CT is the modality of choice for evaluation and planning the management of symptomatic patients of paranasal sinus pathologies. How to cite this article Rao K. Computed Tomography of Paranasal Sinus Pathologies with Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery/Nasal Endoscopy Correlation. Clin Rhinol An Int J 2015;8(1):15-19.