OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of intraturbinate monopolar cautery, bipolar cautery, high frequency monopolar and high frequency bipolar cautery in inferior turbinate hypertrophy. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized single blinded clinical study METHOD The study comprised of 80 patients divided in 4 groups each of 20 patients who underwent monopolar cautery, Bipolar cautery, high frequen...

INTRODUCTION Surgical treatment of nasal obstruction attributed to nasal valve dysfunction is typically subdivided into interventions addressing the internal or external components of the nasal valve. Although carefully selected patients breathe more easily after nasal valve surgery, many fail to improve. We hypothesize that these patients may improve with surgery directed to correcting anatomi...

This case report is a 65 year old woman from Kerman. Her main complian is nasal obstruction and recurrent nasal bleeding from five months ago. In clinical examination there was a large tumor in left nasal cavity. CT scaning revealed a large tumor in left nasal cavity and maxillary sinuse. The tumor is resected compeletely with negative safe margine by radical caldwell- luc approach. The origin ...

Multiple anatomical variants were encountered during a cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) study of the nasal cavity of a 43-year-old male patient. These were mostly related to the nasal turbinates, suggestive for an unusual development of ethmoturbinals. Pneumatized turbinates were observed: bilateral supreme, superior, and middle concha bullosa. There were bilateral paradoxically curved supe...

Reconstruction of nasal defects can be a difficult task if large amounts of nasal mucosa are missing. We have found the inferior turbinate mucosal flap to be a reliable and effective flap in a series of 16 patients undergoing nasal reconstruction or repair of septal perforations. Most of these patients had insufficient mucosa to use traditional flaps harvested from the nasal floor or the latera...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the effect of topical intranasal oxymetazoline on nasal resistance and aerobic exercise performance in patients with nasal congestion caused by inferior turbinate hypertrophy. STUDY DESIGN Individual randomized controlled trial. METHODS Eight patients with inferior turbinate hypertrophy performed a set of exercise tests to exhaustion 1 week apart. They wer...