[Interrelations between otorhinolaryngologic and chronic nonspecific respiratory diseases (author's transl)].

1000 patients, suffering from chronic nonspecific respiratory diseases, were investigated for otorhinolaryngologic diseases. The frequency of pathologic findings such as nose deformities, sinusitis, rhinitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, respiratory hypersensitivity and their treatment results are evaluated aiming to find out common causative factors in the pathogenesis of these upper and lower airway diseases. A careful diagnosis and subsequent treatment of otorhinolaryngologic diseases is required to improve the therapeutic results of the basic respiratory disease.