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- Title
Patterns of sinusitis in cystic fibrosis.
- Authors
Gentile, Victor G.; Isaacson, Glenn; Gentile, V G; Isaacson, G
- Abstract
It has been pediatric dogma that most children with cystic fibrosis (CF) have pansinusitis and few are symptomatic. To reassess this premise, we compared symptoms, clinical examinations, radiographic and surgical findings, and results of treatment in 19 children with cystic fibrosis who had undergone computed tomography at St. Christopher's Hospital (Philadelphia) from 1991 to 1994. We found two distinct patterns of sinus disease: chronic sinusitis (n = 3) and polyposis (n = 12). Two of the patients with polyposis had ethmoid mucoceles and 1 child had no sinus disease at all. Children with chronic sinusitis had headache as a major complaint, while those with polyposis suffered nasal obstruction alone unless a mucocele was present. Surgery provided marked and lasting improvement in the 14 patients who were operated on.
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 1996, Vol 106, Issue 8, p1005
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1097/00005537-199608000-00018