The relationship between clinical types of sinusitis and microscopic lesion features of uncinate processes
- Author:
Phan Chien Thang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
sinusitis
- MeSH:
Sinusitis;
Diagnosis;
Endoscopy
- From:Journal Ho Chi Minh Medical
2005;9(3):148-152
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Study on 39 patients (18 males, 21 females, mean age: 36.3 years old) with chronic or recurrent anterior sinusitis, with or without nasal polyps, who were undergone naso-sinus endoscopies at Gia Dinh Hospital and HCMC University Medical Center from January to July 2004. Results: there was a change in microscopic imagines of uncinate processes like imagines of typical polyps although uncinate processes degeneration couldn’t be found. Polyps were common in chronic sinusitis, the rate of polyps increased along with the years of sinusitis
