[A study of spontaneous cure of sinusitis (author's transl)]

A clinical trial, in which the spontaneous self-cure rate of acute, chronic and childhood sinusitis was studied, is reported. The spontaneous cure rate in acute sinusitis, using analgesics only, range up to 79 per cent within 14 days. In chronic maxillary sinusitis using placebo treatment only, the pathological findings settled in 60.9 per cent within 21 days. A 5 year study of sinusitis in children aged 7-13 years showed a spontaneous self-cure rate of 94 per cent. These findings encourage a conservative approach in the management of sinusitis.