Comparative study of adult tonsillectomy in two methods: harmonic scalpel and classical surgery

Abstract Background Tonsillectomy is a common surgery to treat tonsillitis. In addition cold dissection methods, other new methods are also used for tonsillectomy which has several advantages. We compared the and harmonic scalpel method investigated complications of both methods. Methods This descriptive analytical study on 50 patients in population 18 60 years who had conditions based inclusion criteria. These were divided into two groups, duration operation, amount bleeding during pain first, fourth, seventh days after operation measured them. Results this study, 36 men 14 women examined. The significantly less group than ( P = 0.000). Postoperative 1 4 was 0.047). Conclusion According length group. first fourth group, but day not different from