[Surgical treatment of chronic sinusitis in children].
BACKGROUND
Chronic sinusitis presents important problem in children. General approach in chronic sinusitis in children consists of: findings the proper diagnosis, optimal pharmacotherapy (oral or intravenous antibiotics), treatment coexisting allergic or systemic diseases and considering employing surgical treatment. The main surgical procedures in the treatment of chronic sinusitis in children are adenoidectomy and functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).


METHODS
32 children with chronic sinusitis treated in ENT Department Silesian Medical University in Zabrze in the years 2000-2005 were presented in this study. 26 patients were treated surgically and 6 children by pharmacotherapy. In the surgically treated patients we performed 10 Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, 4 unilateral and 8 bilateral sinusoscopy of maxillary sinus, and in 4 cases we removed choanal polyps.


RESULTS
In the group of 26 surgically treated children we did not observed the recurrence of symptoms in the 24 months follow-up period.
Katedra i Oddział Kliniczny Laryngologii Sl. AM w Zabrzu.
Maciej
M
Misiołek
Katarzyna
K
Mrówka-Kata
Grzegorz
G
Namysłowski
Wojciech
W
Scierski
Rafał
R
Fira
Grazyna
G
Lisowska
Eugeniusz
E
Czecior
Piotr
P
Pawlas
Bogusława
B
Orecka
Hanna
H
Misiołek
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery*