: Adenoidectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures performed on children. Conventional curettage adenoidectomy a low-cost procedure that still widely practised, particularly in developing nations. To compare conventional and endoscopic-assisted powered using microdebrider. Consecutive cases for (Group I) Endoscopic Assisted II) were taken from undergoing adenoidectomy, with each grou...

Adenoidectomy, surgical removal of hypertrophic adenoids, is a common operation in children worldwide. The purpose of this study was to compare the operative effectiveness, and included total operative time, blood loss and complications, between endoscopic assisted adenoidectomy and conventional curettage adenoidectomy. EMBASE, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and China National Knowledge Infrastructu...

Objective. To determine whether patient factors (eg, indication for initial surgery, medical comorbidity, or age) are associated with adenoid regrowth and subsequent need for revision adenoidectomy and whether surgical factors (eg, surgical technique or level of surgeon’s training) are associated with adenoid regrowth and subsequent need for revision adenoidectomy. Study Design. Historical coho...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the incidence of intranasal extension of adenoid tissue and residual adenoidal obstruction of the posterior choanae following traditional curette adenoidectomy to determine the efficiency of adenoid curettage and the usefulness of intraoperative endoscopic examination and powered-shaver adenoidectomy in achieving better postnasal patency. DESIGN Prospective intraoperati...

Background: Adenoidectomy is most common paediatric surgical procedures. Commonly used methods for adenoidectomy are conventional curettage and endoscopic coblator assisted adenoidectomy. The technique of coblation has considerable influence on the duration surgery, blood lost intra operatively, pain first postoperative period. Methods: Sample selected study were children age group 3 to 11 year...

 Abstract Background: The children with middle ear effusion need repeated re-tympanostomies. Adenoidectomy is an effective surgical intervention in the management of chronic otitis media with effusion in conjunction with in-sertion of tympanostomy tubes (TTs). To find out whether TTs in different positions decrease the rate of re-tympanostomies study was done. Methods: The present study retrosp...

Introduction Although the number of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy procedures has declined over the past 50 to 60 years, these operations continue to be among the procedures performed most commonly in the United States, second only to myringotomy with tube insertion. According to the most recent compilation of national health statistics (1996), more than 287,000 children younger than age 15 ye...

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...

Background: Adenoidectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures performed in children Bangladesh. Though conventional curettage highly popular as it has advantage being cost effective and continues to be a commonly used method especially developing countries but Microdebrider opened new horizon this arena. To compare adenoidectomy endoscopic-assisted powered using microdebrider.
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background: otitis media with effusion (ome) is the most frequent indication for surgery in children. some surgeons prefer to use adenoidectomy and myringotomy with tympanostomy tubes insertion to prevent the sequelae of the disease and also more improvement of hearing. the aim of this study is to compare adenoidectomy-myringotomy with adenoidectomy-myringotomy plus tympanostomy tube in the man...