introduction: a reduction or cessation of the ability to breathe through the nose can affect a person's overall health. nasal passage blockage can also result in snoring. difficulty in breathing through the nose after rhinoplasty is a serious problem and patient dissatisfaction can be significant even when cosmetic results are excellent. long-term impacts on the quality of life and contrib...

To study causes of hypertrophied inferior turbinate, results of its surgical management by partial inferior turbinectomy and complications of this surgical procedure. Patients with symptomatic hypertrophied inferior turbinate who were willing to undergo partial inferior turbinectomy were included in the study. Patients were followed up after 2 weeks, 2 months and 6 months. Subjective improvemen...

Objective: To compare the safety and efficacy of microdebrider assisted partial inferior turbinectomy with the conventitional turbinectomy in patients with inferior turbinate hypertrophy. Design: Prospective randomized single blinded study. Setting: Academic Medical Center. Patients & Methods: Sixty patients with nasal obstruction and bilateral hypertrophied nasal turbinates that was refractory...

UNLABELLED Most studies show that objective measures to quantify and determine surgical success in the treatment of nasal obstruction do not correlate with subjective improvement as reported by patients. AIM To evaluate the subjective improvement of nasal symptoms in patients undergoing septoplasty with or without turbinectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study. We evaluated 72 sept...

We describe a practical technique of superior turbinectomy followed by posterior ethmoidectomy as a less invasive procedure for two-surgeon technique on endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery. After identification of the superior turbinate and the sphenoid ostium, the inferior third portion of the superior turbinate was coagulated and resected. This partial superior turbinectomy procedure...