Histopathology
Patient Work up
Sinus Imaging
Pharmaceutical
CSO Pot Pourri
100
This type of inflammatory cell is predominant in type 2 CRSwNP tissue.
What are eosinophils?
100
An elevated serum Total IgE level can be indicative of this common disorder which often accompanies CRSwNP
What is Allergic Rhinitis
100
This is the maximum Lund-Mackay score
What is 24?
100
This monoclonal antibody targets IL-5 and is FDA-approved for the treatment of CRSwNP
What is Mepolizumab
100
This surgeon is currently the CSOHNS president for 2025. He is based out of montreal and practices in Pediatrics
Who is Dr Sam Daniel
200
What are common findings in the epithelium in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis
What are thickened basement membrane and goblet cell hyperplasia?
200
When combined with subjective symptoms, these 2 objective measures can used to diagnose CRSwNP
What are nasal endoscopy and CT scan inflammation (mucosal thickening/opacification)
200
The tumor underlying these MRI images of an adolescent male
What is Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma?
200
Dymista is a combination of these two pharmacologic classes
What are antihistamines and corticosteroids?
200
The CSOHNS conference last year was held in this city
What is Montreal (extra points if said in french jk)
300
This nasal growth has a delicate branching pattern with a thin fibro-vascular core.
What an exophytic papilloma?
300
A lifetime dose of Prednisone above this value significantly increases the risk of side effects such as Type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and glaucoma?
What is 1 gram
300
The condition depicted in this CT image can in severe cases cause diplopia
What is Silent Sinus Syndrome?
300
This antihistamine has minimal cognitive effects and is therefore safe for pilots to use.
What is fexofenadine?
300
Who was the founding president of the American rhinologic society in 1954
Who is Maurice Cottle
400
Charcot-Leyden crystals are made up of what protein?
What is Galectin-10?
400
Name 3 of the 5 domains of the SNOT-22 questionnaire
What are Rhinologic, Extra-nasal rhinologic, ear/facial, psychological, sleep
400
When using the “CLOSE” preoperative check list, the “E” stands for this
What is the Anterior Ethmoid Artery?
400
Ryaltris contains these two components for the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis
What are olopatadine and mometasone?
400
While better known for first making the link between environmental exposures and cancer, this surgeon also has a “tumor” named after him?
Who is Sir Percival Pott
500
This nasal mass is characterized by overgrowth of medium sized glands displacing normal elements lined with pseudostratified respiratory epithelium with cilia
What is a respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma (REAH)
500
Eosinophilic inflammation in the lower airways can lead to the elevation of this exhaled gas in asthmatics
What is Nitric Oxide (FeNO)
500
Anatomical variant causing the anterior ethmoid arteries in this CT image to hang in a bony mesentery below the skull base, at increased risk of injury.
What is a Supraorbital Ethmoid Cell?
500
These three features must be considered according to EPOS 2020 when initiating biologic therapy in CRSwNP patients
What are prior sinus surgery, need for systemic steroids, and evidence of Type 2 inflammation?
500
This is the number of biologic therapies currently approved by Health Canada for the treatment of CRSwNP and these are their names
What are 3
- Mepolizumab
- Dupilimab
- Omalizumab