A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT METHODS OF TREATMENT FOR INFERIOR TURBINATE HYPERTROPHY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 40
Abstract
BACKGROUND The inferior turbinate plays a pivotal role in normal nasal physiology. The inferior turbinate hypertrophy can cause decreased nasal airflow and sensation of nasal obstruction. Many methods (Conservative and surgical) have been tried to deal with this hypertrophy, but the most ideal method is still to arrive. Conservative management is temporary and recurrence is common. About 13 types of surgical procedures have been described over the past century in correcting inferior turbinate hypertrophy. OBJECTIVES There are number of studies and original articles, which could not come to conclude a standard procedure. The present study is conducted in a tertiary care ENT Institute. We have selected 30 patients for each procedure and a total number of 90 patients were operated and followed up for 6 months. RESULTS At the end of 6 months, the nasal obstruction symptoms are relieved in 1. Turbinoplasty procedure 96.7%, followed by 2. Partial turbinate resection 83.5%, least in 3. Submucous diathermy 50%. Conclusion: Among the three techniques, turbinoplasty proved to be better in terms of functional outcome (Only 2 out of 30 had nasal block) with relatively less complications like bleeding and crusting than the other two procedures.
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Annapoorna B, Veeraswamy , Leela , Sudheer B, Surya S.
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- DOI 10.14260/jemds/2016/569
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