Diagnosis of acute nasal fractures using ultrasound and CT scan

Peyman Astaraki, Bahareh Baghchi, Maryam Ahadi, Peyman Astaraki, Bahareh Baghchi, Maryam Ahadi

Abstract

Objective: Nasal fractures need timely and accurate diagnosis for required treatment to prevent future deformities and unnecessary surgery. Radiography does not provide accurate finding in this case. The aim of this study is to evaluated diagnostic efficiency of ultrasound and CT scan for acute nasal fractures.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study included patients with nasal trauma referred to (XXX) from January 2020 to December 2020. Diagnostic ultrasound and CT scan was performed on all the patients and data obtained was stored in patient data collection forms along with their demographics. The data was statistically analyzed using SPSS v20.

Results: Of 32 patients included in our study, 4 (12.5%) were females and 28 (87.5%) were males. The mean age of the patients was 40.28 ± 16.9 years. The specificity and sensitivity of ultrasound was 100% and 83.33%. The accuracy of the test was 93.75%. The specificity, sensitivity and accuracy were 100%, 95% and 96.88%, respectively. Chi square test also showed that there were a significant association between nose fracture and both CT scan and ultrasound, p < 0.001.

Conclusion: Our study showed that both, ultrasound and CT scan are efficient for the diagnosis of nasal fractures in the patients. Further studies with greater sample size are required in this domain.

Keywords: CT scan; Nasal fractures; Radiography; Trauma; Ultrasound.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors deny any conflict of interest in any terms or by any means during the study. All the fees provided by research center fund and deployed accordingly.

© 2022 The Authors.

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Fig. 1
Boxplot showing the number of cases detected by (A) CT scan and Sonography (B) grouped by negative and positive results. Dots colored in blue and orange showing positive and negative cases scaled by age. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)

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