Bacteriological Study in Nasal Packing after Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Park, Hyo Jin; Kim, Dae Young; Lee, Kung Chul; Jin, Sung Min; Lee, Yong Bae

doi:10.35420/jcohns.1996.7.2.368

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1996; 7(2):368-373

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1996.7.2.368

원저

비내시경하 부비동 수술후의 Nasal Packing에 대한 세국학적 연구

박효진¹, 김대영¹, 이경철¹, 진성민¹, 이용배¹

Bacteriological Study in Nasal Packing after Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Hyo Jin Park¹, Dae Young Kim¹, Kung Chul Lee¹, Sung Min Jin¹, Yong Bae Lee¹

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¹삼성의료원 강북삼성병원 이비인후과

¹Department of Otolaryngology, Samsung Medical Center Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

© Copyright 1996 The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Chronic maxillary sinusitis is a very common disease in the otolaryngologic field. It comes usually after viral upper respiratory infectoin. There are so many articles about bacteriologie study in chronic maxillary sinusitis, but there were rare articles about nasal packing with antibiotic ointment after endoscopic sinus surgery and relation with accompanying disease.

This study was carried out on 85 patients (170 cases) who received endoscopic sinus surgery operation with chronic paranasal sinusitis. Group I which without bacitracin^® ointment used, Group II used it, at Department of otolaryngology Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Samsung Medical Center, during 3 months from June 1995 to September 1995.

The results were obtained as follows;

In the age distribution, the highest incidence of chronic paranasal sinusitis was noted between 10∼19 years of age (78 cases, 43%). In sex distribution 51 cases (60%) were males and 34 cases (40%) were females, and the ratio between male and female was about 3 : 2.
Bacterial culture was positive 13 cases (16%) in the Group I, but bacterial culture was negative in Group II. The most common pathogens isolated were Staphylococcus group 8 cases, Enterobacter erogenes 4 cases, and Klebsiella pneumonia 1 case.
In the Group I, there is no relationship between nasal polyp, allergic rhinitis and pansinusitis, and culture positive.

Keywords: Chronic maxillary sinusitis; Bacteriology of nose