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Complaints mentioned by patients with chronic paranasal sinusitis not always correspond to their objective findings.
Therefore such complaints often make us think of neurotics or of imbalance of the autonomic nervous system. The patients with chronic paranasal sinusitis were classified on the basis of these neuropsychiatric complaints. It was found that the patients who had no nasal operation of any type in the past were neurasthenic and the patients who already received operative treatments of the nose were hypochondriac. These patients were further studied using Cornell Medical Index about their complaints. The results were; non-operative patients had more psychosomatic complaints than normal healthy individuals, while the operatively treated patients were strongly hypochondriac and 70% of them were neurotic. From these results, it was shown that the operations were largely responsible for the hypochondriac states of the patients and that psychological aspect of each patient should fully understood by Cornell Medical Index prior to the treatment.
