title: Adult chronic rhinosinusitis: diagnosis and dilemmas.
abstract: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most frequent otolaryngologic diseases encountered. The diagnosis of CRS is made by a wide variety of practitioners, including primary care physicians,physician extenders, pulmonologists, and otolaryngologists. Therefore, an accurate, efficient, and accessible method of making a CRS diagnosis is required. This article describes the criteria for making a diagnosis and the problems encountered in applying those criteria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, 88 East Newton, D616 Collamore, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Anand.devaiah@bmc.org
authors.forename: Anand K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Devaiah
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000378:metabolism; D010256:Paranasal Sinuses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000378:metabolism; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed