Abstract
The etiology of chronic sinusitis remains unknown and controversy still prevails concerning the value of surgical treatment of chronic sinusitis in children.
Chronic sinusitis is not simply a chronicity of acute inflammation of the mucous membrane of the paranasal sinuses but various intrinsic and extrinsic factors are believed to be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease.
The authors reviewed the postoperative healing patterns of sinusectomy in children and studied the effects of preoperative pathology, subjective and objective findings and type of surgery performed upon the healing process of the operated cases and discuss the merits and costs of surgical treatment of chronic sinusitis in children.
