Background and Objectives: Septoplasty is one of the most common surgical procedures in specialty otorhinolaryngology. Therefore, there are frequent thoughts regarding this procedure to improve its conditions from different aspects, indications, time surgery, techniques, safety measures, postoperative care. One big issues post-operative sequel complications namely pain, oro-facial edema, air wa...

OBJECTIVES To introduce the cutting and suture technique of the caudal L-strut for the management of caudal septal deviation and to evaluate its efficacy and surgical outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary care rhinology clinic. PATIENTS Forty-five patients who underwent endonasal septoplasty using the cutting and suture technique of the caudal L-strut. INTERVENTIONS Aft...

Nitric oxide (NO) plays an important regulatory role in airway function and seems to be implicated in the pathophysiology of several airway diseases. To better understand the involvement of NO in the upper airways, we examined the presence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity in human nasal mucosa and nasal polyp tissues. Nasal mucosa was obtained from seven patients undergoing septoplasty, ...

Objective: Aim of the study is to evaluate subjective outcomes and objective postoperatively investigate correlations between these measurements. Material Methods: This prospective before after surgical was conducted with patients admitted symptomatic nasal septum deviation (NSD) who underwent Cottle’s septoplasty. Morphometric diameters cavity were measured using a multi-detector computed tomo...