The pharyngeal tonsil (adenoid) constitutes the upper portion of the Waldeyer's ring and is located at the top of the nasopharynx, next to the auditory tube and choana. It plays an important role in recurrent otitis of the middle ear and many times its enlargement is responsible for upper airway obstruction. Tonsillectomy is often the treatment of choice for tonsillar diseases. So far, it is th...

BACKGROUND Recently, it has been reported that nasal cytology in light microscopy can identify biofilms, which appear as cyan-stained "Infectious Spots". We assessed by the same method and in the same population, the presence of biofilms in different nasal disorders, and estimated if a correlation with the functional grade of obstruction existed. METHODS Subjects suffering from different nasa...

OBJECTIVES (1) To assess the safety and efficacy of outpatient intracapsular tonsillectomy, which has been recently described as a less invasive means of treating obstructive tonsillar hypertrophy, in children younger than 3 years; and (2) to challenge the standard dictum that children younger than 3 years should be admitted to the hospital after tonsil and adenoid surgery. DESIGN Retrospecti...

Abstract Background In a majority of OSA children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy, very mild symptoms or no at all are related to the cardiopulmonary system, but symptomless chronic changes may slowly occur in these children. Therefore, it is wise monitor patients by an easy, noninvasive cost-effective method; this can easily be done monitoring mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) Doppler echo...

Summary Objective To assess three rapid maxillary expansion (RME) appliances in nasal ventilation. Trial design Three-arm parallel randomized clinical trial. Methods Sixty-six growing subjects (10–16 years old) needing RME as part of their orthodontic treatment were randomly allocated (1:1:1 ratio) to groups 22 patients receiving Hyrax (H), Hybrid-Hyrax (HH), or Keles keyless expander (K). The ...

The aims of this study are to find out the significance of adenoid nasopharyngeal ratio obtained from lateral X-Ray of nasopharynx to decide on the option of surgical treatment of adenoid and to correlate the symptoms with the relative size of adenoid in the nasopharynx. This prospective study was done on 100 children who presented with bilateral nasal obstruction from 412years of age. Radiolog...

Background: The adenoids are part of Waldeyer’s ring lymphoid tissue and when hypertrophied they cause many symptoms, e.g., snoring. They hypertrophy physiologically in children between the ages 6 10 years, then atrophy by age 16 years.
 Objectives: aim this study was to reveal risk factors clinical patterns associated with adenoid patients aged over 12 Methods: We studied 130 who had unde...