The incidence of nasal septal deviation and its relation with chronic rhinosinusitis in patients undergoing functional endoscopic sinus surgery

Objective: to investigate the correlation of nasal septal deviations and chronic rhinosinusitis. methods: the study was conducted at department of otolaryngology,head and neck surgery,boali hospital,sari,iran from january 2012 to september 2014 and comprised subjects aged from 5 to 68 years who had undergone elective functional endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis. spss 17 was used for statistical analysis. results: of the 60 subjects in the study,41(68.3%) weremales and 19(31.7%) females with overallmedian age of 27. nasal septal deviation was found in 49(81.7%) subjects; 11(18.3%) had it in both right and left sides,16(26.7%) in right alone and 22(36.7%) in the left side. the commonest type of septal deviations in the left side were posteroinferior 10(16.66%) and anteroinferior 7(11.7%). in the right side,the corresponding numbers were 9(15%) and 7(11.7%). conclusion: nasal septal deviations are of particular interest in majority of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. © 2015,pakistan medical association. all rights reserved.