Chapter 16 Flashcards
What is rhinitis?
Inflammation and swelling of mucous membranes of the nose, causing runny nose and stuffiness.
______ is also called the common cold.
Infectious rhinitis
Is rhinitis infectious or allergic?
If recurrent, what happens?
- Either
- Can cause chronic rhinitis, sinusitus and nasal polyps
Pharyngitis and tonsillitis are URT ____ infections caused by what?
- VIRAL
- Rhinovirus, echovirus and adenovirus
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is most often caused by _____ and is most common in who?
- EBV
- children in Africa (EBV related) and Asian adults (eat smoked fish with nitrosasmine)
Bacterial rhinitis is most likely caused by what?
A superimposed infection by Strep. pneumo or H. influenzae of a viral infection
Allergic rhinitis produces what symptoms?
- Inflammatory infiltrate with EOSINOPHILS
- Edema in nasal/airways
- Clear mucus (rhinorrhea)
Recurrent rhinitis can lead to nasal polyps.
What are nasal polps?
Edematous nasal mucosa in stroma filled with eosinophils, neutrophils and plasma cells and lined by normal respiratory epithelium
Obstruction of sinus drainage in sinusitis may lead to what 2 gross findings?
Obstruction, creating a
- Empyema in pleural cavity
- Mucocele: cysts lined by respiratory epithelium that secretes mucus
What is the pathway of infection of sinusitis?
- Sinuses can secondarily receive bacteria: Infection can enter the maxillary sinus via periapical tissue of the mouth
- Advanced sinutis can secondarily spread bacteria to adjacent tissue.
What are 3 frequent complications which may arise from chronic sinusitis of the ethmoid sinus?
Infection spread to eye and causes: -
- Preseptal cellulitis
- - Orbital cellulitis
- - Subperiosteal abscess
What are 3 frequent complications which may arise from chronic sinusitis of the frontal sinus?
Go to meninges and brain
- 1. Meningits
- 2. Epidural abcess
- 3. Osteomyolitis
- 4. Mucocele
What are 3 frequent complications which may arise from chronic sinusitis of the maxillary sinus and sphenoid?
- Maxillary: mucocele* and osteomyolitis
- Sphenoid: mucocele
Maxillary sinusitis occasionally arises from extension of an infection from where?
Periapical infection from the mouth
Kartagener Syndrome is characterized by what triad and the sx’s are all caused by what?
- Bronchiectasis
- Situs inversus
- Sinusitis (less common)
- All sx’s due to defective ciliary action
What is allergic fungal sinusitis?
What do you see on histology?
Type 1 hypersensitivity reaction to the fungus asperigillus in the sinus tract, producing a thick compact mmucus with eosinphils and Charcot Leyden Crystals on histology. Fungal hypae are also sometimes seen.
What happens if a patient has allergic fungal sinusitis and alot of aspergillus accumulates?
Form a aspergillus mycetoma (fungal ball) in nasal cavity
What is a_cute invasive sinusitis?_
Who does it occur in most often?
How do we treat?
- Occurs when fungal hypae (often Zygomycosis species/Mucor) invade and go into brain, bloodsream or both.
- DB patients and immunocompromised
- Immediate IV antifungal therapy to prevent spread and sepsis
Which patients are at higher risk for particularly severe forms of chronic sinusitis and by which type of organisms?
DB
Fungi (murcomycosis)
What are 3 conditions which can produce necrotizing ulcerating lesions of the nose and upper respiratory tract?
- - Acute fungal infections (i.e., Mucormycosis)
- - Granulomatosis w/ polyangiitis (Wegener)
- - Extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal-type
Describe the presentation of granulomatosis with polyangiitis in the sinus tract.
Who does it affect
Where else does it affect
- Middle aged adults
- Necrotic granulomas that lead to ulceration, necrosis or perforate the septum, nasal passages and sinuses.
- Also affecting lungs and kidney
What are benign tumors (but locally aggressive) that occur in nose, sinus and nasopharynx?
- 1. Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma
- 2. Sinonasal (Schneiderian papilloma)
What are maligiant tumors (but locally aggressive) that occur in nose, sinus and nasopharynx?
1. Olfactory neuoblastoma
2. NUT midline carcinomas
3. EBV related cancers (nasopharyngeal carcinomas and extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma)
What are the 2 EBV related malignancies?
- 1. Nasopharyngeal carcinomas
- 2. Extranodal NK/T cell lymphoma
Nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a benign tumor found almost exclusively in whom?
Also associated with what GI disorder?
- Young males who are most often fair-skinned and red headed
- Association w/ FAP
What is a nasopharyngeal angiofibroma?
What is its reccurence?
- Polypoid benign mass with BV and fibrous tissue, surrounded with thick BENIGN epithelium
- May recurr and bleed