Abstract
Chronic paranasal sinusitis is one of the diseases we encounter most frequently in our daily clinical practice at the departments of otorhinolaryngology. There are many reports on the therapeutic results of this disease. However, those reports have mainly dealt with improvement in subjective symptoms and objective findings concerning the nose, and not much attention has been paid to the foreign-body sensation in the throat (FBST) brought about by the postnasal discharge. Using 104 cases of patients with chronic paranasal sinusitis having FBST as a symptom, we studied the relationship between postnasal discharge resulting from chronic paranasal sinusitis and findings at the postarytenoid area. The results showed a high incidence of postnasal discharge and many patients complaining of difficulty in clearing the nose of postnasal discharge among the patients who had the symptom in the post-arytenoid area. The rate of improvement in the incidence and description of postnasal discharge was high in the cases that showed improvement in the post-arytenoid area after medication. These findings have suggested a close relationship between postnasal discharge and the symptoms in the postarytenoid area. So it would be necessary to pay attention not only to the nose but also to the subjective symptoms and objective findings of the throat in dealing with patients with chronic paranasal sinusitis.
