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Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2001;127:1099-1101.

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ALTHOUGH SINUSITIS triggers billions of dollars of health care expenditure each year, surprisingly little is known about its epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management. Sinusitis, a disease that affects all age groups, varies from an acute infection following a viral respiratory tract infection to an unremitting chronic problem, such as found in children with cystic fibrosis. Although bacteria have been cultured routinely from about two thirds of patients with acute sinusitis,¹ the role of bacteria in chronic sinusitis has not been well defined.

Antibiotics and adjunctive treatments have been routinely used to treat all forms of the disease, but the duration of antibiotic treatment is not standardized and tends to follow the current trends rather than being based on scientific data. For individuals "failing maximal medical treatment" (a great axiom with no scientific meaning) functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is performed. The problem of chronic sinusitis in children and adolescents has been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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