Monteiro-Zappelini CE, Saunders-Rocha-Tavares HW, Vega F, de Picoli-Danta I, Menino-Castilho A, Machado-de Carvalho G

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ABSTRACT

Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis affects thousands of individuals worldwide, resulting in high costs. Presents several guidelines for its diagnosis, being proposed by the American Academy of Otolaryngology as currently used. Computed tomography (CT) is an important complementary examination in clinical and surgical management of patients with CRS. The Lund-Mackay tomographic staging system is a leading scores used to assess the severity of the disease and assist in therapeutic decisions.
Objective: To evaluate the tomographic profile according to the Lund- Mackay score for patients attended in the rhinology clinic of Santa Casa de Campinas, Brazil.
Material and method: A descriptive and observational study was performed with the computed tomography scans of 20 patients treated at rhinology clinic of Santa Casa de Campinas, en São Paulo, Brazil, during April to May 2011, according to Lund-Mackay system.
Results: A high average score was found, with a percentage of 80% of the values found above 4.
Conclusion: The Lund-Mackay tomographic staging system is a method useful and widely recommended for the evaluation of patients with sinus pathology.

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