[Orbital complications in acute and chronic sinusitis].

Orbital complications in acute and chronic sinusitis occur much more rarely than previously. Orbital and ocular symptoms are also present in chronic sinusitis: mucocele, pyocele and cholesterol granuloma. We describe 33 patients with orbital complications and analyse symptoms, diagnostic procedures and treatment options. The most frequent presenting orbital and ocular symptoms are lid oedema, proptosis, pain in orbita. We got 80% correlation in assessment of bony frame of orbita in CT and MRI with intraoperative view, in 13.3% they were false positive. Pharmacologic treatment alone was used in six patients, and 27 were treated surgically. There was one case of blindness.