Endoscopic Views of Nasal Septal Polyps

Powered Endoscopic Nasal Septal Surgery.

While nasal endoscopy is typically used for diagnosis and sinus surgery, endoscopy can be combined with powered instrumentation to perform nasal septal surgery. Powered Endoscopic Nasal Septum Surgery (PENSS) is an easy, effective and quick alternative to traditional headlight approaches to septoplasty. PENSS limits the dissection to the area of the deviation and markedly reduces the extent of ...

Endoscopic sinus surgery for nasal polyps

Endoscopic repair of nasal septal perforation

Surgical closure of nasal septal perforation is one of the most challenging procedures in nasal surgery. During the last decade, many endoscopic repair techniques have been described with a success of post-operative repair between 76.4% and 100%. The advantages of this approach are its minimal invasiveness (with no external scars), optimal exposure of the operative field (with better visibility...

Inflammatory Septal Nasal Polyp

Introduction: Nasal polyps are benign prolapsed mucosal lesions which commonly arise from the paranasal sinuses and lateral walls of the nose especially the contact areas of osteomeatal complex. Though nasal polyps arising from the nasal septum have been reported, those arising from its anterior part are extremely rare and present a diagnostic dilemma.  Aetiology is multifactorial and is mainl...

Systematic review of endoscopic sinus surgery for nasal polyps.

OBJECTIVES To provide a systematic review of the clinical effectiveness of endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) for the removal of nasal polyps. DATA SOURCES Searches of electronic databases, websites and reference lists were made to identify relevant studies. REVIEW METHODS An extensive search was performed to identify all articles where FESS is used for the excision of nasal polyps. Two reviewe...