The Variants of Frontal Recess and Its Effect in the Development and Prevalence of Frontal Sinusitis in Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Observational Study

This study included a total of 200 participants with a mean age was 43.38  years (± 10.69). There was 146 (73%) male and 54 (27%) female were in the study. Type I frontal recess in 50 (25%), type II in 82 (41%), type III in 24 (12%) and type IV in 18 (9%) patients. The association of age (P = 0.141) and gender (P = 0.345) with frontal sinusitis was not significant. The statistical association between type of frontal recess and frontal sinusitis was statistically not significant. The association between age and the type of frontal recess was found to be statistically significant by Fischer’s exact test withP value of 0.012 (<  0.05), whereas gender was not associated with the type of frontal recess by the same test. It is difficult to overstate the significance of the terms frontal recess, frontal sinusitis, and sinus ostium in this particular medical context. This article was a retrospective observational study that i nvestigates the connection between frontal sinusitis and changes in the frontal recess in patients receiving care at tertiary medical facilities.
Source: Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery - Category: ENT & OMF Source Type: research