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Chronic Rhinosinusitis: Definition, Diagnostics and Physiopathology

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Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

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Abstract

Until recently rhinosinusitis was usually classified (based on duration) into acute and chronic; the present chapter discusses only adult chronic rhinosinusitis. To define chronic rhinosinusitis is not easy; data are limited and this entity’s definition garners much controversy. Rhinitis and sinusitis usually coexist; thus, the correct term is rhinosinusitis. Rhinosinusitis is defined as “...inflammation in the sinuses mucosa associated with inflammation in the nasal mucosa, and often associated with inflammatory changes of the adjacent bony structures” [1].

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  1. Department of ENT, Hospital Sant Pau, 0825, Barcelona, Spain

    Joan-Ramon Montserrat & Juan-Ramon Gras-Cabrerizo

  2. Department ENT, Hospital Clinic, Villaroel 170, 0836, Barcelona, Spain

    Jose-Maria Guilemany

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  1. Department of ORL-HNS Uppsala, University Hospital (Akademiska sjukhuset), 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden

    Matti Anniko

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital Clinic Universitari, calle Villarroel, 170, Esc. 8, 2A, 08036, Barcelona, Spain

    Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen

  3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg, Prof.-Ernst-Nathan-Straße 1, 90340, Nürnberg, Germany

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  4. Department ORL-HNS, Nottingham University Hospitals, Queens Medical Centre Campus, NG7 2UH, Nottingham, UK

    Patrick J. Bradley

  5. Department of Ophthalmology and Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bari, 70214, Bari, Italy

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Montserrat, JR., Guilemany, JM., Gras-Cabrerizo, JR. (2010). Chronic Rhinosinusitis: Definition, Diagnostics and Physiopathology. In: Anniko, M., Bernal-Sprekelsen, M., Bonkowsky, V., Bradley, P., Iurato, S. (eds) Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68940-9_20

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