Role of Diagnostic Nasal Endoscopy in Sinonasal Disease

Abstract

Objective To study the extent of disease by DNE in case of sinonasal diseases as compared to patients’ symptoms and CT finding as well as surgical findings. Method Study was conducted at Saraswathi institute of medical sciences, Hapur from may 2017 to October 2018. Study consists of hundred patients who underwent DNE and CT scan. DNE findings were scored using Lanza and Kennedy scoring and patients were also staged using CT. We used the current definition of CRS. Observation and Results In our study 16 patients had paradoxical middle turbinate (16%), Septal deviation in 70 patients (70%), 50 had polys (50%), 68 patients had the nasal discharge (68%), 24 patients had mucosal abnormality (24%), 26 with inferior turbinate hypertrophy (26%), 18 patients had concha bullosa (18%). Conclusion Nasal endoscopy can diagnose sinonasal diseases accurately regardless of CT scan.