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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4000</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.SP249</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Relation of Concha Bullosa and Chronic Sinusitis: Our Experiences at a Tertiary Care Teaching of Eastern India&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>SK</surname><given-names>Swain</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Acharya</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S</surname><given-names>Panda</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R</surname><given-names>Bhuyan</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>26</day><month>05</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>ar</volume><issue>me</issue><fpage>98</fpage><lpage>103</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: Chronic sinusitis is an important health issue often seen in daily clinical practice. Concha bullosa is an anatomical variation found in patients which leads to chronic sinusitis. Concha bullosa is hypertrophied pneumatized middle turbinate which obstructs the drainage of the anterior group of paranasal sinuses into the stomatal complex and nasal cavity. Objective: To study the role of concha bullosa in patients with chronic sinusitis. Materials and Methods: This is a prospective cross-sectional study. This study was done between December 2019 to February 2021 at a tertiary care teaching hospital in eastern India. Result: There were 118 patients with middle turbinate concha bullosa were detected. The mean age of the patients in this study was 32 years with an age range from 1 to 70 years. There were 67 males and 51 females with a male to female ratio of 1.3:1. Out of 118 concha bullosa, 54 (45.76%) were found on the right side, 41(34.74%) on the left side, and 23 on both sides (19.49%). Out of the 118 cases of concha bullosa, lamellar type was found in 36 cases (30.50%), bulbous type in 44 cases (37.28%) and extensive in 38 cases (32.20%). Conclusion: The middle turbinate is considered a possible causative factor for chronic sinusitis.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Chronic sinusitis</kwd><kwd> middle turbinate concha bullosa</kwd><kwd> osteomeatal complex</kwd><kwd> deviated nasal septum</kwd><kwd> paranasal sinus</kwd><kwd>  computed tomography.</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
