title: [Inflammatory pathology and rhinosinusal CT scan: the radiologist's report].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Pave the way to a better management of the chronical rhino-sinusitis diseases: Description and classification of the chronical rhino-sinusitis pathology, its medical and surgical treatments in order to help the radiologist in its CT-scan report.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of the literature and anatomical considerations. Paranasal sinuses CT-scan analysis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The execution and the interpretation of CT-scans, in accordance with the progress made in the past 20 years in the knowledge of the rhino-sinusitis physiology and pathology, are today absolutely necessary for the management of chronical rhino-sinusitis diseases.
authors.affiliation: Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Faculté de Médecine Descartes, Université Paris V, Service d'ORL et de Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonfils
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malinvaud
authors.forename: Ph
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Halimi
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tavernier
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D009666:Nose / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010256:Paranasal Sinuses / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011871:Radiology; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*