Study for the Management of Pediatric Chronic Rhinosinusitis With or Without Balloon Sinuplasty

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Patients with extensive sinonasal polyps, extensive sinonasal osteoneogenesis, sinonasal tumors
• •2. History of facial trauma that distorts sinus anatomy
• •3. Ciliary dysfunction
• •4. Pregnancy will be excluded.
• •5. Patients with cystic fibrosis, craniofacial anomalies, metabolic disorders, or immunodeficiencies
• •6. Patients who have had their adenoids removed and thus may be candidates for functional endoscopic sinus surgery will also be excluded.
• •7. Patients with a history of sinus surgery or significant anatomic abnormalities on CT scan that would require endoscopic sinus surgery or septoplasty would also be excluded.
• •Of note, children who will be undergoing concurrent surgeries will not be excluded.
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