Background/Aim: Tonsillectomy is one of the widely performed surgical procedures by otolaryngologists. Today, many new instruments are used in tonsil surgery to reduce postoperative morbidity. This study aimed compare intraoperative blood loss, operating time, pain, and bleeding between harmonic scalpel tonsillectomy, coblation bipolar cold dissection tonsillectomy adult patients. Methods: pros...

BACKGROUND The paradigm of tonsillectomy has shifted from a treatment of recurrent throat infection to one of multi-discipline management modalities of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). While tonsillectomy as a treatment for throat problems has been performed almost exclusively by otorhinolaryngologists, tonsillectomy as a part of the armamentarium for the multifactorial, multidisciplinary ther...

BACKGROUND We conducted a retrospective review of patients with unknown primary head and neck cancer who underwent a transoral laser microsurgery (TLM)-assisted search for an occult tumor. METHODS Fifty-two patients at a single center with unknown primaries of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) were treated with a surgical algorithm. RESULTS The overall rate of primary tumor identification was 7...

Introduction: Tonsillectomy is one of the commonest surgical procedures performed worldwide and has implications for reducing morbidity patients. There been variability in tonsillectomy care patterns but we are unaware any study conducted Tanzania to survey such variable patterns. The objective this assess current peri-operative care, techniques used outcome by otorhinolaryngologists Tanzania.&...

BACKGROUND Intracapsular tonsillectomy (IT) has been advocated as a treatment for pediatric obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However, evidence in the literature utilizing polysomnography (PSG) is limited. OBJECTIVE To examine the experience at a tertiary children's hospital to evaluate the effectiveness and risks of intracapsular tonsillectomy compared to total tonsillectomy (TT) for treating p...

INTRODUCTION Tonsillectomy is among commonest otorhinolaryngologic surgeries. Many methods have been used to control post surgical pain, but despite it, pain is still one of the problems related to this operation. Recently, due to the non invasiveness of low level lasers, this modality has attracted attention. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of low level laser irradiation a...

Abstract The debate about which surgical technique for tonsillectomy could be superior over another is continuous. Tonsillectomy techniques are classified into cold and hot procedures. In techniques, no heat used; they include dissection, guillotine, microdebrider, harmonic scalpel, cryosurgery. Hot electrocautery, coblation, radio frequency, laser. Egypt, the used methods dissection with elect...

background pain control in children is still a therapeutic dilemma. preschool patients are affected from undesirable effects of postoperative pain more than adults. tonsillectomy is associated with a high incidence of postoperative pain, not only complicating the recovery, but also delaying patients discharge. objectives despite employing different surgical and anesthetic strategies in post-ton...

Tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy (“tonsillectomy”) represent more than 15 percent of all surgical procedures in children under the age of 15 years. 2 The primary indication for tonsillectomy has shifted over the last 20 years from recurrent throat infections to obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (OSDB) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). 4 Widely variable national and small area tonsillec...