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International consensus statement on rhinosinusitis

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More than 50% of patients had 2 variants or more,

and most had at least 1.

anatomical variants in

the limited group was significantly higher

than in the pansinusitis and control groups. Frontal cells had a

MT abnormality or NSD were not associated with increased incidence of RS.

No association between radiographic disease

and anatomic variants.

No significance found between presence or absence of frontal

recess/ sinus cells or

agger nasi cells and frontal sinusitis.

significant association with the presence of

mucosal thickening.

Frontoethmoid cells posterior and

posterolateral to the frontal recess were

associated with frontal sinusitis.

Study Year LOE Study Design Study Groups Clinical Endpoint Conclusions Sinus CTs of 192

Frequency of total

Presence of anatomic variants

Presence of anatomic variants

variations of MT and NSD correlated to

presence of rhinologic symptoms

variants and associated with radiographic mucosal disease

Eweiss 794 2013 4 Retrospective case series CT scans of 70 patients Presence of frontal and ethmoid anatomic variants and the

presence of frontal sinusitis

Presence of frontal sinus cells and presence of mucosal thickening

Presence of anatomic variants within the

frontal and ethmoid

regions and the presence of frontal sinusitis

Presence of anatomic

Presence of anatomic

Cho 340 2011 4 Case-control study Sinus CTs of 73 healthy controls; 461 CTs of patients with rhinologic symptoms

consecutive patients with suspect CRS

22 patients with limited RS, 28

patients with diffuse disease, 27 controls

patients with CRS

CT scans of 328 patients

CT scans of 192 patients

Sinus CTs of 54

Aramani 797 2014 4 Retrospective Case series

case-control study

Shpilberg 334 2015 4 Retrospective case series

Langille 791 2012 4 Retrospective case series

Lien 790 2010 4 Retrospective case series

Jain 338 2013 4 Retrospective

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