OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of adenoidectomy in children with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections. DESIGN Open randomised controlled trial. SETTING 11 general hospitals and two academic centres. PARTICIPANTS 111 children aged 1-6 with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections selected for adenoidectomy. INTERVENTION A strategy of immediate adenoidectomy with or wit...

Nasopharyngeal soft tissue is most commonly adenoid hypertrophy in children. Although rare, nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) does occur in children. Nasal obstruction, serous otitis media, hearing problems, and tinnitus are common signs and symptoms of all nasal diseases. For this reason, the majority of NPC presents with advanced disease at the time of the diagnosis. This paper reported 7-year-o...

The amount of maxillary and mandibular growth and the direction of maxillary growth were studied in 38 children during the 5 years after adenoidectomy for correction of severe nasopharyngeal obstruction. The amount of mandibular growth measured between successive gnathion points on superimposed radiographs was significantly greater in the group who had an adenoidectomy than in the matched contr...

Introduction onsillectomy, adenoidectomy and adenoidectomy are commonly performed ENT operations in our country. The exact number of this operation performed annually is not known to us. But in USA over 3,40,000 operations are performed annually. According to JAMA, it compromises 10% of all operation. In 1985, this becomes the 4 most frequently performed procedure comprising only 2.5% of all op...

Some otolaryngologists administer topical phenylephrine for bleeding control in adenoidectomy surgery. Absorption of this drug from surgical site can lead to increase in blood pressure due to vasoconstriction and then bradycardia related to baroreceptore reflex.  Our case was an intraoperative arrest of a 9-yrs-old girl related to administration of topical phenylephrine during adenoidectomy how...

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...