Volume: 2 Issue: 2
Year: 2025, Page: 83-87, Doi: https://doi.org/10.71325/ajjms.v2i2.25.25
Received: May 5, 2025 Accepted: May 27, 2025 Published: July 17, 2025
Background & Objective: Chronic rhinosinusitis is common cause of morbidity and impaired performance at school or workplace. The disease is extremely common. A definitive diagnosis and timely intervention can reduce morbidity of disease. Primary objective is to correlate the subjective symptoms with objective findings. Methods: A cross sectional study with 50 patients who is diagnosed of CRS based on Taskforce criteria. Then they were subjected to nasal endoscopy and computed tomography and scores noted. The scores were compared with respect to symptoms. Results: In this study, total patients studied were 50. Mean age was 35.88 years (SD-14.84428) with male to female ratio 1.5:1. The most common symptom was nasal obstruction (84%), followed by headache (80%), nasal discharge (68%), hyposmia/anosmia (56%), facial pain and pressure (28%). The mean CT scan score for all symptoms was found to be 6.42 and the endoscopic score mean was 3.00. Conclusion: Both nasal endoscopy and CT are important preoperative evaluation tools in detecting pathology and both are complementary to each other.
Keywords: Chronic rhinosinusitis, TFR criteria, CT scan, DNE, Paranasal sinus
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