Rhinosinusitis

Question 1

Common symptoms

Answer 1

Congestion nasal
Nasal discharge (postnasal drip)
Facial pain
Alteration of smell
Others
Cough
Fever
Halitosis
Fatigue
Dental pain
Pharyngitis
Headache
Ear fullness

Question 2

Classification

Answer 2

Acute (<4 wks)
Subacute (4-12wks)
Cronic (>12 wks)
Recurrent (4 /more episodes per year)

Question 3

Surgical techniques for maxillary sinus

Answer 3

Antral puncture and irrigation
Intranasal antrostomy
Caldwell luc operation (sublabial incision for window b/w antrum and inf. meatus)

Question 4

Surgery for frontal sinusitis

Answer 4

Intranasal drainage operation
Trephination of frontal sinus
Osteoplastic flap operation

External frontoethmoidectomy / Howarth’s / Lynch operation.

Question 5

Surgery for ethmoid sinusitis

Answer 5

Intranasal ethmoidectomy
External ethmoidectomy