[Exploration of evaluating way of curative effect in transnasal endoscopic sinus surgery for treating chronic sinusitis].

OBJECTIVE

To explore the evaluating way of curative effect in transnasal endoscopic sinus surgery for treating chronic sinusitis.

METHODS

725 cases who suffered from chronic sinusitis and undergone the endoscopic sinus surgery in 1991-1995 were analyzed according to the index that set up by ourselves.

RESULTS

The difference of properties, limits and extents of pathological changes in sinuses affected directly the surgical result.

CONCLUSION

It is very important to build up a staging system and a criterion of treating effect on chronic sinusitis for appraising properly the endoscopic sinus surgery.