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[Unilateral sinonasal disease in 376 adult patients: a retrospective study]
Xin Yan Cui1, Li Qin Wang1, Min Yin1
1Department of Otolaryngology, Jiangsu Province People's Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing.
Objectives:
To investigate the clinical and pathological features of patients with unilateral sinonasal disease (USD).
Methods:
A retrospective analysis was completed on 376 adult patients with USD from January 2015 to December 2016. Their presenting symptoms, nasal endoscope, CT scanning, and pathology were analyzed respectively.
Results:
Among the 267 (71.01%) patients with inflammatory disease, there were 4 pathological types. And there were 8 pathological types in 60 (15.96%) patients with benign tumor. Of the 49 patients with malignant tumor, there were 15 pathological types which included squamous carcinoma, malignant melanoma, and lymphoma, as well as myoepithelial carcinoma and Mesodermal mesoderm. The onset age of inflammation group was younger than that of benign (P<0.05) or malignant tumor groups (P<0.05). The misdiagnosis rate was 8.33% in benign tumor (5/60), and 10.20% in malignant tumor (5/49). Nasal polyps was the most common misdiagnosis in the groups of benign and malignant tumor.
Conclusions:
The pathology of adult patients with USD is complicated, and no specific clinical feature was found for distinguishing between benign and malignant lesions. The tumor took a quite proportion in adult patients with USD. Therefore, careful consideration should be taken before diagnosing patients with USD in order to reduce misdiagnosis rate.
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