EDITORIAL: Sinus headaches
Volume: 45 - Issue: 1
First page: 1 - Last page: 2
A. Daudia - N.S. Jones
The issue of whether headaches and, or facial pain or pressure are caused by sinusitis has caused much debate in the literature. Many patients believe sinusitis is a cause of their pain, a view often reinforced by their General Practitioners or other hospital physicians.
The paper in this issue by Phillips et al. (page 3 ) describes the role of endoscopic sinus surgery for ‘sinus headaches’ in patients with genuine chronic rhinosinusitis on the basis of sinonasal symptoms with positive finding at endoscopy and computerised tomography who are resistant to maximal medical treatment. The authors conclude that endoscopic sinus surgery results in a statistically significant improvement in headache symptom scores at three months and one year post surgery. They also conclude from their subgroup analysis that the intraoperative findings of pus of nasal polyposis were not assosiated with an improvement in headache symptom scores.
Rhinology 45-1: 1-2, 2007
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