Clinical characteristics and complications of sinusitis at the Department of ENT of Hue Centre Hospital
- Author:
Dang -- Thanh
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
sinusitis
- MeSH:
Sinusitis;
Diseases;
complications;
epidemiology
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2003;450(4):11-15
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The study was carried out on 320 patients with sinusititis at Hue Centre Hospital from Sept. 1998 to Mar. 2000; 76.5% of patients were 16-45 years old, 43.8% male and 56.2% female, 43% with 1 year long of the disease. The causes were infection 76.5%, allergy rhins-sinusitis 50.9%. Favorable factors: 49.1% local, 11.6% environmental, 2.5% systemic status. Clinical symptoms were headache 71.5%, cararrhal rhinitis 65.3% (posterior) and 48.4% (anterior), obstructive rhinitis 36.9%. Acite form sinusitis 12.8%, chronic 87.2%. In Blondeau Hirlz film: dim image of ethmoid sinus 96.4%, maxial sinus 60.6%, sphenoid sinus 24.2%, frontal sinus 5.2%. Complications occurred in 48.7%, the common were inflammation of the throat 27.2%, media otitis 21.9%. Within one year, the complication occurred in 35.8%, more 1 year 58%
