Professional paper

Teuta Alerić Primorac
Boris Grdinić

Abstract

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is the most commonly used surgical technique to treat pathology of the sinuses. During the years of developing FESS technique, indication has spread from the inflammatory pathology to sinus malignancy. Most common pathology treated with FESS is medically unresponsive chronic sinusitis. We have analyzed characteristics of patients underwent sinus surgery in our ward during five year period, from 2008. to 2013. We have included 177 patients and 171 of them had a form of chronic sinusitis.
125 patients had bilateral sinus pathology and 52 had unilateral sinus pathology. All of the patients with bilateral sinus pathology had a form of chronic sinusitis. All of our patients were preoperatively and postoperatively treated by suggested EPOS guidelines. Postoperative regular check up is keeping the number of revision surgery low. Only four patients previously underwent FESS needed reoperation. One had inverted papilloma and other three of them had Samter syndrome.

Keywords

chronic rhinosinuisitis; functional sinus surgery; nasal polyposis

Hrčak ID:

130675

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/130675

Publication date:

31.12.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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