SUMMARY Endovascular therapy for hemorrhage after tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy is an important adjunct to the definitive treatment of this life-threatening occurrence. We report two cases of hemorrhage after tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy and describe the endovascular management of this complication in children.

BACKGROUND Children with severe airway obstruction tend to have a vertical direction of growth, class II malocclusion, and narrow arches. Adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy were recommended for the promotion of balanced dentition growth in these children.The aim of this study was to determine the effect of adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy on the growth of dental morphology in children with airway o...

BACKGROUND Little information is available about the efficacy of tonsillectomy on long-term renal survival of patients with primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN). METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, we considered 61 patients with IgAN who had tonsillectomy (n = 15) or not (n = 46) and compared them with 121 control patients with mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis (MesGN) free of IgA de...

Abstract Background Recently, coblation technique is used in many neck surgeries; there are few studies dealing with the field of tonsillectomy either intracapsular or extracapsular tonsillectomy. The aim this study to evaluate efficacy using (preserving capsule) over it (total). Results There statistically difference between results and as regards postoperative pain according VAS scale (4.36 ±...

It is not often that ENT topics are the leading stories on the World Health Organization (WHO) website, but with the publication of new prevalence data on hearing loss, to coincide with International Ear Care Day (1 March 2013), this has indeed happened. These new data reveal greatly increased figures for hearing loss. There are an estimated 360 million people with disabling hearing loss worldw...

OBJECTIVES Recent publications have identified different rates of postoperative hemorrhage between "cold" tonsillectomy techniques and "hot" tonsillectomy techniques, generally identifying lower bleeding rates after cold techniques. Data from a prospective institutional review were analyzed to determine the relative risk factors for post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage among different techniques and b...

OBJECTIVE To compare the rates of major complications (postoperative hemorrhage requiring return to the operating room or cauterization in the emergency department and dehydration requiring intravenous fluids or readmission) in a large cohort of children undergoing adenotonsillectomy by three different techniques. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review, case-controlled study. SETTING Re...

To compare postoperative self-reported recovery results with monopolar tonsillotomy and cold dissection tonsillectomy in children. evaluate the feasibility of technique tonsillotomy. Children <12 years undergoing or between April 2018 March 2020 who (with a caregiver) were willing to participate two-week follow-up formed study group. They filled questionnaire about pain-related outcomes, return...

Tonsillectomy is one of the leading surgical operations ENT profession. Chronic tonsillitis has a massive effect on quality life and tonsillectomy used to treat disease major procedure that can lead multiple intraoperative post-operative conditions, including bleeding, discomfort, etc., resulting in lack school/work impaired life. To study outcome procedures between CO2 laser conventional tonsi...

Objective: To analyses the clinicians perspective on routine histopathological evaluation of tonsillitis specimens before tonsillectomy. Study Design: Cross sectional study. Place and Duration Study: ENT Department, Islamic International Medical College, Rawalpindi from 1st July 2021 to 30th June 2022. Methodology: One hundred both genders were enrolled 14 questions based proforma was generated...