Correspondence between clinical and radiological findings in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with or without sinonasal polyposis

Abstract

Introduction: Rhinosinusitis is an inflammatory process in the mucous membranes of nasal cavity and one or more paranasal sinuses. Diagnosis of this illness involves implementation of various procedures, some of which do not match. Objective: The aim of this paper is to determine if there is correspondence between clinical and radiological findings in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with or without sinonasal polyposis. Method: 60 patients with nasal mucus condition, nasal secretion, a certain degree of nasal septum deformity and the CT Lund-Mackay score underwent the research. Results: Results of the study indicate that there is no correlation between clinical and radiological findings in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis, regardless of presence of sinus polyposis (p>0.05). Correlation between clinical findings in these groups of patients is statistically significant (p<0.05) Conclusion: There is no correlation between clinical and radiological findings in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis, with or without nasal polyposis.

Keywords

• chronic rhinosinusitis
• nasal-sinus polyposis
• computed tomography