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Abstract Conventional sinus surgical techniques which were used to treat chronic sinusitis as antral lavage, external, intranasal and transantral ethmoidectomy, external frontal sinus surgery and the Caldwell-Luc procedure were recently substituted by the use of nasoendoscopy. This is due to technical advances in endoscopic systems and the respect of the importance of normal sinus function of mucociliary flow and ventilation through the anatomical ostia. Nowadays, the quality of life evaluation has a growing interest. QoL scores are used to detect the benefit of different types of medical and surgical treatment. Many definitions of QoL exist. It is usually utilized as patients’ emotional, social and physical well-being, including their ability to function in the ordinary tasks of living. The aim of the study is to evaluate the outcome of FESS in patients’ symptom profile and quality of life according to SNOT22 in non-psychic patients, above 25 years old and who did not undergo a previous sinus surgery. The study was done on 60 patients who come to ENT outpatient clinic in of ORL department at El- Menoufia university hospital where a lot of patients come having chronic Rhinosinusitis. The patients were diagnosed and treated by FESS and answered the SNOT22 questionnaire before the surgery and three months after the surgery. The study showed an improvement in the outcome of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis after functional endoscopic sinus surgery with better results regarding patients’ local nasal, extranasal, psychological, ear/facial, and sleep dysfunction manifestations. |