Pneumatized Crista Galli: A Histopathologic Study
| Autor: | Ratko Prstačić, Boris Bumber, Marcel Marjanovic Kavanagh, Antonia Jakovcevic, Tomislav Tokic, Ranko Smiljanic |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Adolescent Chronic rhinosinusitis 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Ethmoid Sinus medicine Cadaver Humans Crista galli 030223 otorhinolaryngology Aged Aged 80 and over business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Histopathologic Study Middle Aged chronic rhinosinusitis crista galli headache histopathology pneumatized crista galli Crista Ethmoid Bone medicine.anatomical_structure Otorhinolaryngology Surgery Histopathology Female business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 163(3) |
| ISSN: | 1097-6817 |
| Popis: | Objective: This is the first histopathologic study that investigates the incidence of the pneumatized crista galli. Study design: A prospective histopathologic study. Setting: Tertiary academic medical center. Subjects and methods: A total of 109 specimens of crista galli were obtained postmortem during 2018 from randomly chosen patients who died at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb and had an autopsy at our Department of Pathology and Cytology. Specimens were surgically resected during the autopsy and then fixed, decalcinated, dehydrated, and embedded in paraffin. All slides were cut into 5-µm-thin sections and stained with a standard method (hematoxylin and eosin) for light microscope analysis. Specimens were histopathologically analyzed for the existence of pneumatization inside crista galli. The criterion to declare a specimen pneumatized was the presence of mucosa inside the cavity. Results: Pneumatized crista galli was found in 5 of 109 specimens (4.59%). In 5 of 5 cases (100%) of pneumatized crista galli, there was evidence of chronic inflammation. Conclusion: We found that the incidence of pneumatized crista galli is significantly lower in our histopathologic study in comparison with the majority of previous radiologic studies. Our study also found that all 5 specimens with pneumatized crista galli had chronic inflammation in the mucosa, which is a considerably higher incidence than in the previous studies (7.7%-44%). Due to the emerging evidence of pneumatized crista galli being of clinical importance, we suggest that a larger study be conducted before the results are generalized to the general population. |
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