ISRA MEDICAL JOURNAL p-ISSN: 2073-8285
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الثلاثاء 11 جمادى الثانية 1447
Tuesday 02nd December 2025
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Title:
Clinico-Histological Pattern of Sinonasal Space Occupying Lesions in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Authors:
Mohammad Sajjad Khattak, Rafiq Ahmad Khattak, Muhammad Akram Khattak
Published on:
2017-08-31
Journal Reference:
Volume 9- Issue 4     July - August 2017
Pages:
222-225
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe the clinico-histological pattern of sinonasal space occupying lesions in patientsadmitted in Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Department of tertiary care Hospital.
STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective descriptive study.
PLACE AND DURATION: Pathology Department Bannu Medical College and ENT Department Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital Bannu KPK, from 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2016.
METHODOLOGY: In this study a total of 68 patients with sinonasal lesions were analyzed. All patients of any age and sex were studied.Patients clinical record was collected from ENT ward register of the Hospital and biopsy histo pathological reports were collected from register of Pathology Deptt of Bannu Medical College. The parameters age, sex, clinical findings and histological pattern of different sinonasal lesions were assessed for frequencies with percentages and mean with standard deviation in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.
RESULTS: The mean age was 31.55±13.5 years with age range of 15 to 65 years. Male patients were 67.64% and female 32.35% andmale to female ratio was 2.09:1. Nasal obstruction was present in 57 (83.82%) patients followed by nasal discharge in 42 (61.76%) andepistaxis in 13 (19.11%). The common non neoplastic lesion was inflammatory nasal polyp 34 (50.0%). In benign neoplastic lesions inverted papilloma was the common lesion 9 (13.23%) and squamous cell carcinoma was the common malignant lesion in 5 (7.35%)cases.
CONCLUSION: This study show almost the same clinico-histological pattern of sinonasal mass lesions as in other studies. Inflammatorynasal polyp was the commonest non neoplastic inflammatory lesion, whereas inverted papilloma was the commonest benignneoplastic lesion and squamous cell carcinoma was the commonest malignant lesion in this study.

KEY WORDS: Sinonasal lesions. Nasal obstruction. Inflammatory nasal polyp. Squamous cell carcinoma. Histopathology.