1. DIAGNÓSTICO DAS ALTERAÇÕES NOS SEIOS MAXILARES ATRAVÉS DA IMAGEM DIGITALIZADA.
- Author
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Cunha Costa, Conceição de Maria Almeida, Madeiro, Anagélica Tolentino, Bandeira, Fabiana Guedes, and de Almeida Cunha, Paula Angela Souto Montenegro
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MAXILLARY sinus , *POLYPS , *CYSTS (Pathology) , *PANORAMIC radiography , *DIAGNOSTIC imaging - Abstract
This study had the objective to verify alterations presented in the maxillary sinus through digital panoramic radiographs analysis without using after-processing techniques. The polyp/mucous cyst, antrolith, reduction of transparency, mucous thickening and the foreign bodies had been seen, according to the patients´ gender and age group within 252 digital radiographs randomly selected among 1980 examinations from an image diagnostic center in João Pessoa city. The analysis were done in two steps totalizing 504 radiographs images. A total of 139 patients with such pathologies were observed in the results, amounted a prevalence of 55,15% of the sample where the transparency reduction got greater expression with 34,92% of the sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007