Nose presentation Dr S Ganapathy Associate professor Department of ENT Kanyakumari government medical college
Aesthetic part of face Defines the race Often beauty of nose commented in poetry In literature nose is reference article for explaining certain mood description Nose
Nasal obstruction Nasal discharge/ post nasal drip Head ache/ facial pain Epistaxis Smell disturbances sneezing fever Symptoms
Snoring Voice change Other system like throat , ear Other symptoms
Obstruction
Duration Side / laterality Onset progress present stage Partial or complete Intermittant or persistent Aggravating(chill fluids, fever, climate, travel, dust) R elieving factors (systemic and local drugs, steam inhalation ) Nasal obstruction
Causes Unilateral DNS – C shaped and spur Turbinates hypertrophy AC polyp Rhinosporidiosis / R hinolith Forign body Synechiae Benign and malignant tumours Unilateral choanal atresia Bilateral CRS, acute rhinitis Allergic Vasomotor rhinitis S shaped DNS Septal hematoma and abscess Ethmoidal polyposis Nasophayngeal – atresia, adenoids, tumours Rh. Medicamentosa Combination of two causes
C or S shaped deviation Spur Dislocation(caudal deviation) Classification of septal deviation
Ciliary beat is always towards the ostium Maxillary – stellate pattern Ethmoid – spiral pattern Sphenoid – spiral pattern Frontal – whorl pattern Messerklinger principle
Unilateral foul smelling discharge in pediatric age group? Is post nasal drip a sign of chronic sinusitis? What are the two layers of Sinus discharge? Q’s
Youngs syndrome Kartageners syndrome Cystic fibrosis Specific diseases
Duration Site / referred to site Diurnal variations if any Type – dull aching in chronic sinusitis pricking /throbbing in acute infection Association with nausea ,vomiting, photophobia and giddiness, aura Aggravating factors - on bending forward Relieving factors Head ache/ facial pain
Maxillary – facial heaviness rather than pain Ethmoid – behind or around eyes, more in Paediatric Frontal – called as office head ache, vacuum head ache, Sphenoid – usually referred to vertex or occipital
Side Number of episodes Quantity of blood h/o trauma, digital trauma h/o hypertension, drugs intake Concentrate in GE for anaemia h/o bleeding diathesis Epistaxis
MC cause in children – littles area bleed In adult – hypertension(brown area, wood rufff plexus) In old age – think of malignancy Torrential epistaxis in adolescent male in JNA Epistaxis
Causes – Spur DNS with impaction Rhinosinusitis/ other infection like rhinosporidiosis Bleeding polypus /hemangioma malignancies Q’s
What is trotters position?
Anterior nasal packing Posterior nasal packing(need General anaesthesia ) Q’s
Cottles line Cottles test Further definition of septal deviation
Cottles test signifies involvement of nasal vale area
Maxilla – canine fossa Ethmoid – medial to medial canthus Frontal – floor of frontal sinus / supro medial aspect of orbit Sphenoid - ? Sinus tenderness
In case of mass Sensation ? Probing all around possible or not (in lateral)? Bleeds on touch? Consistency? Probe test
Difference between AC polyp and ETH polyp Syndrome associated with polyp Why it is enlarging posteriorly in AC polyp? Q’s in polyps
DNE – 3 passes X ray Waters view/ caldwell view/lateral view CT PNS Blood inv. Nasal discharge for C/S Allergic tests – skin tests, RAST, PRIST, IGE assay Order of telling investigations
Orbital - chandler Preseptal Post septal Subperioteal Orbital abscess Cavernous sinus thrombosis Intracranial complications Potts puffy tumour – osteomyelits of frontal bone Mucocele Oroantral fistula Otological / pharyngolayngeal complications Complications of sinusitis
Medical Surgical Management
Septum – septoplasty/ SMR Sinusitis/ polyp – FESS Mass – FESS, Medial Maxillectomy Partial or Total maxillectomy ACFR Surgical
Septal hematoma Septal abscess Septal perforation Supra tip deformity Saddle nose deformity Floppiness of septum Columellar retraction Complication of SMR
Orbital Intracranial CSF rhinorrhoea Bleeding Osteomyelitis in case if done in acute condition Anosmia Lacrimal duct injury Complication of FESS