Evaluation of Para-nasal Sinuses Common Pathology using Computed Tomography

Abstract

This study was a descriptive analytic study. The main objective of which study was to evaluate of the effectiveness of computed tomography in the diagnosis of para- nasal sinuses diseases. The study was carried out at the Modern Medical Center and Kuwait Hospital during the period from November 2017 to January 2018, and the data were collected from these two hospitals .CT machine (Optima /GE Health Care) 64- slice was used in obtaining the images. This study included random samples of 100 patients (73 males and 27females) with ages between (20 to 60) years old. The study has come out with many result including that the incidence of sinus pathology is higher in males(73%) than in females (27%). The most affected age groups were the ages between (51-60) years and pathology was most commonly seen in the maxillary sinuses (46%), ethmoid sinuses (30%) ,frontal sinuses (13%), and sphenoid sinuses (11%) . The sinusitis was the most frequently observed abnormality in males (58.9%) and in females (55.56%). The results also showed that using CT technique was highly accurate in the diagnosis of inflammatory conditions and their complications. It is also a very sensitive modality for detection, accurate localization and determination of exact extent of para-nasal sinus neoplasm. Various important anatomical variants can also be easily detected on CT of paranasal sinuses.