[Imaging of the adult sinusitis: indications for using conventional techniques, CT scan and MRI].
CT scanning has become the major investigation for sinusitis which is not acute, but chronic. It is a good diagnostic tool, but also allows follow-up assessment of progress, and preoperative evaluation of particular problems related to abnormalities or anatomical variations. MRI scanning has a lesser place, and is most useful in evaluating certain types of pseudo-tumorous sinus conditions, or excluding local complications (in the anterior cranial fossa or orbit).
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D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010256:Paranasal Sinuses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed