OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS Lateral synechia formation between the middle turbinate (MT) and the lateral nasal wall is the most common complication of endoscopic sinus surgery. In an attempt to prevent this complication, a simple technique to preserve and medialize the MT was studied. METHODS Five hundred patients underwent endoscopic sinus surgery with MT medialization and preservation. The caudal ...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate audiological outcomes following adenoidectomy by the classical method and by endoscopically-assisted adenoidectomy using a powered instrument (microdebrider).   Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in a tertiary care center. It included 40 patients divided into two equal groups of 20 each. Group-A patients underwent classical a...

Dear Editor, We read with a great interest the article by Costantini et al. 1 entitled Videoendoscopic adenoidectomy with microdebrider (Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 2008;28:26-9). This procedure offers several advantages: an improved fi eld of vision, continuous suction of blood, and extreme precision in removing the adenoid tissue. In their study, the validity and safety of this videoendoscopic...

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...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether microdebrider intracapsular tonsillotomy (MT) results in less postoperative pain compared with electrosurgical extracapsular tonsillectomy (ET). DESIGN Prospective, randomized, double-blind, matched pair, clinical trial. SETTING Specialty care hospital. Patients Twelve male (48%) and 13 female (52%) children aged 5 to 15 years, with obstructive tonsillar hyperpl...

introduction: the aim of this study was to evaluate audiological outcomes following adenoidectomy by the classical method and by endoscopically-assisted adenoidectomy using a powered instrument (microdebrider).   materials and methods: this study was conducted in a tertiary care center. it included 40 patients divided into two equal groups of 20 each. group-a patients underwent classical adenoi...