The classification of frontal sinus pneumatization patterns by CT-based volumetry
Autor: | Nuri Karabay, Mustafa Cenk Ecevit, Gülşah Zeybek, Amaç Kiray, Nesibe Gül Yüksel Aslier, Pembe Keskinoglu, Semih Sütay |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
Cone beam computed tomography
Pathology and Forensic Medicine 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging 030216 legal & forensic medicine 030223 otorhinolaryngology Frontal sinus business.industry Curve analysis Anatomic Variation Aplasia Hyperplasia Cone-Beam Computed Tomography medicine.disease Hypoplasia Volume measurements medicine.anatomical_structure Frontal Sinus Surgery Tomography Anatomy Nuclear medicine business |
Popis: | We aimed to define the classification of frontal sinus pneumatization patterns according to three-dimensional volume measurements.Datasets of 148 sides of 74 dry skulls were generated by the computerized tomography-based volumetry to measure frontal sinus volumes. The cutoff points for frontal sinus hypoplasia and hyperplasia were tested by ROC curve analysis and the validity of the diagnostic points was measured.The overall frequencies were 4.1, 14.2, 37.2 and 44.5 % for frontal sinus aplasia, hypoplasia, medium size and hyperplasia, respectively. The aplasia was bilateral in all three skulls. Hypoplasia was seen 76 % at the right side and hyperplasia was seen 56 % at the left side. The cutoff points for diagnosing frontal sinus hypoplasia and hyperplasia were '1131.25 mm(3)' (95.2 % sensitivity and 100 % specificity) and '3328.50 mm(3)' (88 % sensitivity and 86 % specificity), respectively.The findings provided in the present study, which define frontal sinus pneumatization patterns by CT-based volumetry, proved that two opposite sides of the frontal sinuses are asymmetric and three-dimensional classification should be developed by CT-based volumetry, because two-dimensional evaluations lack depth measurement. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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