Imaging Chronic Rhinosinusitis The term chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is preferred because rhinitis almost always precedes sinusitis and sinusitis occurs concurrently with...
Imaging Rhinosinusitis Acute Rhinosinusitis Air–fluid levels and complete opacification of a sinus are the imaging hallmarks of acute rhinosinusitis (ARS). More t...
Available Imaging Modalities Of Sinusitis Radiological imaging is complementary to the clinical and endoscopic evaluation of patients with rhinosinusitis. The diagnosis of this path...
Diagnostic Aids Of Rhinosinusitis A number of diagnostic aids may be helpful in confirming or making the diagnosis of rhinosinusitis. An evidenced-based report by the Agency...
Diagnosis Of Rhinosinusitis Clinical investigations regarding the diagnosis of rhinosinusitis have been difficult until recently, due to a lack of consensus for the de...
Pediatric Rhinosinusitis Classification During the last decade, three manuscripts have been published that classified pediatric rhinosinusitis. The Lusk et al. guidelines were an ...
Fungal Sinusitis Classification Ponikau et al. confirmed the presence of sinus eosinophilia in the majority (96%) of their patients with CRS by means of histological analy...
Classification of Rhinosinusitis In 1997, the International Rhinosinusitis Advisory Board (IRAB) published the clinical classification of rhinosinusitis in adults. They def...
Rhinosinusitis Classification In 1972, Douek wrote that ‘‘classification has an important place in medicine, as it forms the framework upon which diagnosis is made possi...
Predisposing Conditions of Rhinosinusitis n addition to smoking, there are many other conditions associated with rhinosinusitis. These include allergic rhinitis, asthma, nasal polyp...
Sinusitis Epidemiology Respiratory tract infections are the most common type of infections managed by health care providers, and they are of great consequence. I...
Acute and Chronic Sinusitis Treatment The diagnosis of acute sinusitis prompts countless number of antibiotic prescriptions per year. Although the vast majority of cases of acut...