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Conventional curettage adenoidectomy versus endoscopic assisted adenoidectomy.
An adenoidectomy is the surgical treat ment that consists in the removal of hypertrophied lymphatic tissue (Lushka’s pharyngeal tonsil), which blocks the rhinopharynx, behind the nose. Hypertrophy is the result of an abnormal development of the lymphatic follicles either from birth or as a result of repeated infections of the upper respiratory tract. Hypertrophy, in its turn, favors recurrent i...
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Introduction Although the number of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy procedures has declined over the past 50 to 60 years, these operations continue to be among the procedures performed most commonly in the United States, second only to myringotomy with tube insertion. According to the most recent compilation of national health statistics (1996), more than 287,000 children younger than age 15 ye...
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THE significance of even transien't anoxia during anaesthesia has been w'idely recognised for many years but until recently the frequent occurrence and potendtiaJ danger of minor degrees of prolonged oxygen desaturation during the immediate post-operatlive period had not been appreciated. In 1962 however Nunn and Payne making use of the newer techniques of blood gas analysis demonstralted that ...
متن کاملAdenoidectomy: Our Approach
Dear Sir, it was a pleasure reading the article “Transoral endoscopic adenoidectomy” by A. El-Badrawy andM. AbdelAziz published in Volume 2009 (2009) of this journal (Article ID 949315). Adenoidectomy has been an old surgery and has been done with various techniques [1]. The technique described in this article is definitely better than conventional technique of adenoidectomy. However, I feel th...
متن کاملCoblation total tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy versus coblation partial intracapsular tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children.
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the postoperative course of children who underwent coblation T&A versus those who underwent coblation partial intracapsular tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (PITA). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS Records of children undergoing consecutive tonsillectomies from July 2009 to October 2012 were analyzed. All surgeries used a coblation device. Ou...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.298.6685.1451-a