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# Nose and sinuses: approach to complaints

Nosebleed, nasal blockage, runny nose, loss of smell and facial pain.

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## Approach to a complaint

- [**Approach to a runny nose, including CSF leak** Most runny noses are viral or allergic; clear, one-sided, persistent discharge means thinking of…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/approach-to-a-runny-nose-including-csf-leak/)
- [**Approach to facial pain and «sinus headache»** Facial pain without purulent discharge or nasal blockage is rarely sinusitis; it is usually a…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/approach-to-facial-pain-and-sinus-headache/)
- [**Approach to loss of smell** Loss of smell may be conductive, from polyps or rhinosinusitis, or sensorineural, from viruses…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/approach-to-loss-of-smell/)
- [**Approach to nasal blockage** One-sided, fixed nasal blockage suggests a structural cause or a tumour; bilateral, variable…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/approach-to-nasal-blockage/)
- [**Approach to nosebleed** Almost all nosebleeds are anterior, from Kiesselbach's area, and stop with pressure; posterior…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/approach-to-nosebleed/)

## Topic

- [**Complications of sinusitis: orbital, intracranial and bony** Rarely, sinus infection spreads to the eye socket, the brain or the bone of the skull; swelling…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/complications-of-sinusitis-orbital-intracranial-and-bony/)
- [**External nose and nasal vestibule: furuncle, vestibulitis, rhinophyma and the danger area of the face** Boils and infections of the nose skin are usually minor, but the nose sits in a danger area…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/external-nose-and-nasal-vestibule-furuncle-vestibulitis-rhinophyma-and-the-dange/)
- [**Granulomatous diseases of the nose: leishmaniasis, leprosy, TB, syphilis, rhinoscleroma, rhinosporidiosis, GPA** Crusting, bleeding and a nose that slowly destroys itself point to chronic infections…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/granulomatous-diseases-of-the-nose-leishmaniasis-leprosy-tb-syphilis-rhinosclero/)
- [**Other nasal problems: rhinolith, nasal myiasis, synechiae, antrochoanal polyp and CSF leak** A one-sided blocked or smelly nose has a short list of causes: a stone, maggots, scar bands, a…](https://durgical.com/en/ent/other-nasal-problems-rhinolith-nasal-myiasis-synechiae-antrochoanal-polyp-and-cs/)

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