title: [Clinical analysis of 111 patients with non-invasive fungal rhino-sinusitis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the clinical characteristics, diagnosis and treatment course and clinical effect of non-invasive fungal rhino-sinusitis, and to investigate the diagnostic and treating methods and factors affecting the clinical outcome.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was conducted on 111 patients who were diagnosed with noninvasive fungal rhino-sinusitis from 2005 to 2009 in our department. Clinical symptoms, endoscopic and CT examinations, surgical methods, surgical outcomes and the treatment of the recurrent cases were reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Eighty-six cases were reassured of the non-invasive fungal rhino-sinusitis by means of clinical symptoms, endoscopic and CT examinations. All the patients who underwent functional endoscopic sinus surgery showed satisfying clinical effect and no complications occurred. During the follow-up, recurrence was found in 12 cases 1 to 5 years postoperatively, and 7 were cured after medication and debridement under endoscope in outpatient department while the clinical outcome of the other 5 was unsatisfactory.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Non-invasive fungal rhino-sinusitis is distinctive in endoscopic and CT examination which is different from common chronic rhino-sinusitis, and endoscopic sinus surgery is an effective treatment for the disease. Radical debridement and successful drainage of the nasal sinus is the key factor affecting the effect of the treatment and clinical outcome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, the First People's Hospital, Foshan, 528000, China. fspuma@sina.com
authors.forename: Sisi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Chao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Youjun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Qingqing
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005658:Fungi; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009181:Mycoses / Q000175:diagnosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012220:Rhinitis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D055815:Young Adult