KBB-Forum 2005 , Cilt 4, Sayı 2

PERIPHERAL EOSINOPHILIA AND ITS RELATION WITH CT SCORES IN CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS

Altan YILDIRIM, MD1; Salim YÜCE, MD1; Cesur GÜMÜŞ, MD2; Tanfer KUNT, MD 1
1Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi , KBB ABD, Sivas, Türkiye
2Cumhuriyet Universitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Radyoloji ABD, Sivas, Türkiye The purpose of this study was to quantify peripheral eosinophil count and percentage of eosinophils in white blood cell (WBC) count of the patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and look for the correlation between the CT scores and peripheral eosinophilia.

Peripheral eosinophil counts and the percentages of eosinophils in white blood cell count (WBC) were statistically compared with CT scores in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) patients. We also statistically analyzed the peripheral eosinophil counts and the percentages of eosinophils in WBC counts between CRS patients and healthy ones.

We found significant difference between CRS group and control group for peripheral eosinophil count, and percentage of eosinophils in WBC count (p=0.001 and p<0.001) respectively. We observed no correlation between CT scores and both peripheral eosinophil counts, or percentages of eosinophils in WBC counts (p=0.067and p=0.051) respectively.

Although eosinophil seems as the dominator cell of CRS patients in the periphery, peripheral eosinophilia does not correlate with CT scores. Keywords : Peripheral eosinophilia, chronic rhinosinusitis