Incidencia de sinusitis diagnosticada por tomografía computarizada de senos paranasales en pacientes que acuden al departamento de Imagenología en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga, Cuenca 2019

Abstract

Background: Sinusitis is the inflammation or thickening of the mucosa that covers the paranasal sinuses usually caused by an infection, obstruction or anatomical variants that affects the frontal sinuses, maxillary sinuses, ethmoid sinuses or sphenoid sinuses; computed tomography (CT) being a study that uses ionizing radiation to obtain images of different parts of the body allowing us to visualize the state of the sinuses and a possible case of sinusitis. Objective. To determine the incidence of sinusitis diagnosed by paranasal sinus CT in patients who attended to the Imaging Department at the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital, during the period from February to June, 2019. Methodology. A descriptive - prospective study was carried out whose universe, were the clinical histories of the patients who attended the tomography department in the Imaging area of the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital to perform a paranasal sinus CT study, during the period from February to June, 2019. This information was tabulated and analyzed according to the variables: age, sex, radiological characteristics and affected paranasal sinus observed through a computed tomography with a diagnosis of sinusitis. Results. The data were analyzed and showed the following results: 209 patients (76%) presented sinusitis, of these 51,67% are male, 21,05% of patients are in the range of 30 to 39 years old. The most common location was pansinusitis with 32, 06%. According to the radiological characteristics, 96, 65% corresponded to acute sinusitis. Conclusions. In this research project the incidence of sinusitis was high, representing 209 patients of the 275 reviewed. This result indicates that 76% of the patients had sinusitis in the period described.