title: [Exploration of evaluating way of curative effect in transnasal endoscopic sinus surgery for treating chronic sinusitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the evaluating way of curative effect in transnasal endoscopic sinus surgery for treating chronic sinusitis.
  
  
  METHODS
  725 cases who suffered from chronic sinusitis and undergone the endoscopic sinus surgery in 1991-1995 were analyzed according to the index that set up by ourselves.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The difference of properties, limits and extents of pathological changes in sinuses affected directly the surgical result.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is very important to build up a staging system and a criterion of treating effect on chronic sinusitis for appraising properly the endoscopic sinus surgery.
authors.affiliation: Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou 510630.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009298:Nasal Polyps / Q000601:surgery; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000601:surgery*