1. Clinical and histopathological correlations in rhinosinusitis Student: Blebea Cristina Conferentiar: Muhlfay Gheorghe Assistant: Lostun Gabriel

2. Rhinosinusitis Clinical Surgical (Functional endoscopic sinus surgery) Treatment

3.  The objective of this study was to assess the correlation between histological and clinical diagnosis in rhinosinusitis, by evaluating the results of histopathological examination of postoperative material from FESS. Clinical diagnosis Histopatho logical diagnosis ?

4. Is routine histological investigation of all FESS material necessary?

5.  Crossectional retrospective study on 673 cases (2009-2013)  Inclusion criteria: patients with rhinosinusal pathology who underwent FESS and had a histological diagnosis  Histopathological examination: HE and PAS staining Otorhinolaringology Department Morphopathology Department

6. Ethical approval from UMF Targu Mures. Collected data analyzed via Chi-Square test using MedCalc. A p value of less than 0.05 considered significant.

7. Number of patients673 Mean age47 Minimum age5 Maximum age87 SD16,46

10.  2 Special aspects

11. Fungal rhinosinusitis

12. Schneider papilloma

13. Strong correlation between clinical and histopathological diagnosis of the FESS material Is histological confirmation needed?

14. Se of clinical diagnosis in: Schneider papilloma Fungal rhinosinusitis Reason to perform routine histopathological examination of FESS

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