We conducted a prospective study of 48 children, aged 2 to 14 years, who had persistent bilateral otitis media with effusion, enlarged adenoids, and a bilateral conductive hearing loss. Half of these patients underwent adenoidectomy and the other half adenotonsillectomy. All patients were followed every 2 weeks for up to 6 months. At 2 months postoperatively, the overall success rate in terms o...

A total of 13 adenoidectomies using a nasal endoscopic-guided transoral adenoid curette (not yet a published standardised method) were performed to treat snoring. Nasal endoscopy allows easy assessment of the size of the adenoids and improves the accuracy of the adenoidectomy. This technique is particularly useful for paediatric patients who have small oral cavities. The assessment and excision...

OBJECTIVE To assess surgical outcomes in children undergoing sinus balloon catheter dilation for whom previous adenoidectomy has failed. Adenoidectomy is the first line of surgical management for children with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). This procedure is successful in about 50 percent of patients. DESIGN Prospective review of children who had surgery for CRS. SETTING A referral tertiary ...

OBJECTIVE To document the Clinical outcome of Day Case Adenoidectomy in Children in a Nigerian tertiary health Institution and a private Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant Cinic. METHODOLOGY This is a prospective study of twenty eight children without any co-morbid condition operated for adenoidectomy between June 2002 and May 2004. The patients were admitted on the day of surgery and discharged...

BACKGROUND Pain is a common complaint after adenoidectomy. Behavioral changes after adenoidectomy in children have been reported, and it has been concluded that postoperative pain significantly affects the occurrence of behavioral changes. Behavioral changes, when a proactive pain treatment has been used, have not been systematically studied. OBJECTIVE To assess postoperative behavioral chang...

OBJECTIVE To compare the OME groups that improved when treated with adenoidectomy, VT and medication, and which of them recurred. METHODS Twenty-two consecutive children with recurrent OME (11%) were selected among 200 children who had adenoidectomies and had been inserted a ventilation tube (VT) for OME. The patients were selected for allergy evaluation because of recurrent OME not responsiv...

I) The author should reflect the view points of the oppositions and any opponent of this idea. There are some misleading usages of references. For example in reference11 in Dr. M Farhadi et al's article, Song et al found that children with history of initial tympanostomy tube (TT) insertion had a longer extrusion time. Also patients with serous effusion had the shortest extrusion time (1). Glei...

Abstract Background Many nasal pathological findings have been described with antrochoanal polyp (ACP). We aimed in this study to assess the prevalence of adenoid hypertrophy among children presented ACP and evaluate efficacy concomitant adenoidectomy on outcome endoscopic removal lesion. Results Forty-three were included study. Preoperative endoscopy computed tomography performed for all patie...

Background and ObjectiveaaTo compare the correlation between nasopharyngeal airway 1 month and 1 year after adenoidectomy using skull lateral views and subjective symptoms. MethodsaaThirty two children who underwent adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy from January 2003 through June 2006 were included. All were checked by skull lateral view as described above by retrospective review of medical recor...