Vargas-Cárdenas LG, Ramírez-Oropeza FJ, Girón-Archundia E, Gómez-Monterrosas O, Lugo-Machado JA

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ABSTRACT

Objectivoe: To determine the association between the nasal vestibular body’s tomographic size and the presence of nasal obstruction in adults.
Materials and Methods: An observational, analytic, retrospective case-control study was done at the Hospital Angeles de Puebla, Mexico, from August to December, 2020. Adult patients with a simple tomography image of the nose were included. A group that reported nasal obstruction was compared with a control group without nasal obstruction. Digital tomography coronal slices measured the vestibular body in both groups. The results of both were compared, as well as the presence or not of rhinitis with or without treatment.
Results: Twenty-three patients were included (10 men and 13 women), for whom a clinical file was collected. The average age was of 28.8 ± 10.2 years. Ten patients reported symptoms corresponding to rhinitis. A moderate positive correlation was found between nasal obstruction and the vestibular body width (R = 0.79, p ‹ 0.001), as well as between nasal obstruction and the length of the nasal vestibular body (R = 0.77, p ‹ 0.001).
Conclusions: This study shows a relationship between the vestibular body with nasal obstruction. This information provides a valuable preoperative diagnostic tool in these patients. Longer complemental studies are required to elucidate this issue with greater certainty.

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