Assessment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: Development of the Nasal Polyp Patient Assessment Scoring Sheet tool.

Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a heterogeneous disorder with a wide range of validated subjective and objective assessment tools to assess disease severity. However, a comprehensive and easy-to-use tool that integrates these measures for determining disease severity and response to treatment is still obscure. The objective of this study was to develop a standardized assessment tool that facilitates diagnosis, uniform patient monitoring, and comparison of treatment outcomes between different centers both in routine clinical practice and in research.

Management of Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps (CRSwNP) in the Pan-Arab Region: Consensus Recommendations from a Multidisciplinary Expert Working Group.

Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a chronic and often debilitating inflammatory condition of the nasal and paranasal tissues. An expert panel of specialists from the Gulf region (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and the United Arab Emirates) and from Egypt gathered to evaluate existing guidance and develop regional guidance on the management of CRSwNP through a consensus approach. The present article presents the main observations and recommendations from this panel.

Surgical treatment of sinonasal inverted papilloma.

Purpose Of Review: To highlight how surgery of inverted papilloma has developed during the past year. Moreover, to give our own opinion on the state of research regarding inverted papilloma surgical management.

Recent Findings: Recent studies covering surgical treatment of inverted papilloma concentrated on the optimum surgical management aiming at complete resection, least morbidity and best outcome, with special interest regarding the maxillary and frontal sinuses.

Development of an International Odor Identification Test for Children: The Universal Sniff Test.

Objective: To assess olfactory function in children and to create and validate an odor identification test to diagnose olfactory dysfunction in children, which we called the Universal Sniff (U-Sniff) test.

Study Design: This is a multicenter study involving 19 countries. The U-Sniff test was developed in 3 phases including 1760 children age 5-7 years.

Development of the Arabic version of the "Sniffin' Sticks" odor identification test.

Unlabelled: Sniffin' Sticks Test (SST) is a comprehensive tool for medical or scientific diagnosis of olfactory sensitivity. Although it is widely used around the world, it is recommended to develop a cultural adaptation of any odor identification test prior to using it in a particular cultural space. The aim of the present work is to adapt SST to Arabic population, running experiments in Egypt.

Transnasal endoscopic medial maxillectomy in recurrent maxillary sinus inverted papilloma.

Background: Maxillary sinus inverted papilloma entails medial maxillectomy and is associated with high incidence of recurrence.

Objective: To study the impact of prior surgery on recurrence rate after transnasal endoscopic medial maxillectomy.

Methodology: Eighteen patients with primary and 33 with recurrent maxillary sinus inverted papilloma underwent transnasal endoscopic medial maxillectomy.

Inverted papilloma: new classification and guidelines for endoscopic surgery.

Background: Surgery is the gold standard in the management of inverted papilloma (IP); however, the approach and extent of the surgical procedure are still controversial. Moreover, there is still no universal staging system of IP to plan surgery and/or evaluate results. We performed a retrospective study.

Nasal and paranasal sinus changes after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Objective: To study sinonasal side-effects after radiotherapy (RT) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients.

Material And Methods: The study subjects comprised 32 cases of NPC (23 new cases, 9 old cases) who had been treated with RT with no recurrence. They were subjected to a saccharine test, nasal endoscopy and CT.

Manometric measurement of lacrimal sac pressure after endoscopic and external dacryocystorhinostomy.

Objective: To evaluate endoscopic and external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) using a quantitative, objective functional tool.

Material And Methods: This study comprised 58 cases divided into 4 groups: healthy controls; patients suffering from epiphora due to nasolacrimal duct (NLD) obstruction; patients who had undergone endoscopic DCR; and patients who had undergone external DCR. The lacrimal sac pressure was measured during blinking, forced blinking and the Valsalva maneuver using a polygraph.