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The present study was aimed to investigate the effects of DNS on the structure of nasal cavity. The paranasal sinus coronal view CT of 108 patients with DNS and 129 hospitalized patients without DNS was retrospectively analyzed. The transverse diameter of nasal cavity (a), transverse diameter of nasal cavity and paranasal sinus (b), angle between maxillary and palatal bone, interalveolar distance, and maxillary rotation distance were measured. The ratio of a/b in experimental group was 0.367 ± 0.006 which was significantly (P = 0.0023) less than that in control group (0.391 ± 0.005). For the angle between maxillary and palatal bone, there was no significant difference found between DNS and control group for both right and left sides. The interalveolar distance was 40.75 mm in experimental group, and 38.8 mm in control (P = 0.0002). For the maxillary rotation distance, findings were considered as significant (P < 0.0001) in experimental group (11.25 mm) compared with control (10.1 mm). The present study demonstrates that long-term DNS affects the development of nasal cavity and paranasal sinus, as well as increases the interalveolar distance and maxillary rotation distance. These influences may be caused by the alteration of airflow inside the nasal cavities.
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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20620140692), Jiangsu Government Scholarship for Overseas Studies 2014, the Medical Youth Priming Project of Nanjing (QYK11162), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30973302, 81371090), the Medical Important People Project of Jiangsu Province (RC2007010), and the Medical Important Developing Project of Nanjing (ZKX06019).
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J. Wang and X. Dou contributed equally to this work. S. Wang and X. Gao are co-corresponding authors.
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Wang, J., Dou, X., Liu, D. et al. Assessment of the effect of deviated nasal septum on the structure of nasal cavity. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 273, 1477–1480 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-015-3770-y
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