dc.contributor.author | Nondi, Fredrick O | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-24T06:31:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-24T06:31:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/96349 | |
dc.description.abstract | The roentgenic demonstration of paranasal sinus disease is often
time consuming and expensive since it requires many examinations. This
is especially true with respect to sinusitis. In this study, 208 patients with
clinical features of paranasal sinus disease are analysed. About 90% had
sinusitis, 78% of these having radiological changes in the maxillary sinuses.
Included in this group were almost all patients with normal radiographs,
but who clinically had evidence of sinusitis. The other conditions such as
tumours, mucoceles and cysts were relatively rare.
The radiological features of sinusitis, tumours, mucoceles and cysts
in this study were straight forward. Therefore plain radiography could be
easily used in their diagnosis.
The clinical symptoms of paranasal sinus disease are largely nonspecific
i.e. nasal blockage, headache and nasal discharge, with the
exception of mucoceles where patients presented with a palpable frontal
mass, expansion and erosion of sinus walls. Also, tumour patients, who
only show radiographic evidence of disease late when the tumour is already
widespread, had a longer symptom duration (months) compared to
sinusitis (weeks). | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.title | The role of conventional radiology inthe diagnosis of paranasal sinus Disease at Kenyatta National Hospital,Nairobi | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |