Abstract

The most common presenting symptoms for acute sinusitis include fever and toxicity; chronic sinusitis symptoms include facial pressure, headache, nasal obstruction, postnasal drip, and fatigue. All the patients who satisfied the inclusion criteria of the study were subjected to history taking and physical examination to identify clinical signs at presentation. Then the patients were subjected to CT scan of nose and paranasal sinus region and the anatomy of the sinonasal region was thoroughly assessed after a probable diagnosis was made. After completing all investigations, definitive management was done and the radiological features were correlated with the clinical and endoscopic diagnosis. In the present Study, 18.0% had Nasal Discharge, 42.0% had Headache, 16.0% had Nasal Obstruction, 10.0% had Loss of Smell, 12.0% had Post Nasal Drip, 4.0% had Epistaxis, 10.0% had Nasal Mass, 6.0% had Giddiness and 8.0% had Fatigue. The most common symptom in the present study was headache (42%) followed by nasal discharge (18%). The least common symptom was epistaxis (4%).

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