Table 5.
Summery of some reported prevalence of various ostiomeatal complex variations
| Authors | Agger nasi cell |
Haller's
cell |
Uncinate process variations | Concha bullosa | Nasal septal deviation |
Paradoxical
Middle Turbinate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lloyd 1990 [23] | 3% | 2% | 16% | 14% | NA | 17% |
| Lloyd et al. 1991 [24] | 14% | 15% | 21% | 24% | NA | 18% |
| Bolger et al. 1991 [25] | 98.50% | 45% | NA | 53% | 18.8% | 26.1% |
| Scribano et al. 1993 [26] | NA | 24% | NA | 67% | NA | NA |
| Yousem 1993 [27] | NA | 10-45% | NA | 34-53% | NA | NA |
| Wanamaker 1996 [28] | NA | 20% | 45% | 30% | 20% | NA |
| Tonai & Baba 1996 [29] | 86.7% | 36% | NA | 28% | NA | 25.3% |
| Stackpole & Edelstein [30] | NA | 34% | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Perez-Pinas et al. 2000 [31] | Nearly all | 3% | 4.5% | 73% | 80% | 10% |
| Zinreich et al. 2003 [32] | Nearlly all | 10% | 3% | 36% | 21% | NA |
| Wani et al. 2009 [33] | 9.33 % | 8.66 % | 25% | 30% | 25.33% | 9.33% |
| Alkire et al. 2010 [11] | 51.8% | 70.3% | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Mamath et al. 2010 [10] | 50% | 17.5% | 65% | 15% | 65% | NA |
| Fadda et al. 2012 [5] | 24.3% | 22.8% | 60.5% | 49.3% | 58.5% | 6.4% |
| Mathew et al. 2013 [22] | NA | 60% | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Present study | 93.23% | 68% | 54.8% | 67.30% | 49.5% | 10% |