Can CT Scan Detect Nasal Polyps ?
A search of PubMed for 1980-2017 with the search-terms “nasal polyposis” and “nasal polyps” found no studies of CT imaging of nasal polyposis as clinically defined. There are not even any sections focusing on imaging of “chronic rhinosinusitis withy polyps” in any of the international position papers Many articles, on the other hand, have studied and classified ethmoidal and sinus opacity in chronic rhinosinusitis without and without polyps: no correlations emerged between CT aspect and clinical presentation. The various position papers advise against founding diagnosis of chronic rhinosinusitis on CT alone rather than on chronic symptomatology, with endoscopy to distin¬guish rhinosinusitis with and without polyps. However, not all functional disorders of the nose are due to inflammation, and the term “chronic nasal dysfunction” seems more appropriate than “chronic rhinosinusitis” as an a-priori designation of nasal functional pathology as such and to assess its specific impact on...