Nasal septum deviation with inferior turbinate hypertrophy treated by endoscopic sinus surgery.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Nasal septum deviation with inferior turbinate hypertrophy treated by endoscopic sinus surgery Author: Fan Zou firm until Jiang Jian-Qiang Chen Xu Qun Keywords: nasal septum deviation inferior turbinate hypertrophy endoscopic sinus surgery Nasal septum deviation with inferior turbinate hypertrophy in clinical practice is relatively common, is a common disease Rhinology. Traditional surgery of the nasal septum high, after the partial paragraph difficult to completely correct the song, and the conventional treatment of inferior turbinate mucosa is more difficult to retain full functionality, caused by unsatisfactory clinical efficacy. To address the problem, the Division since March 2002 to April 2007 using endoscopic-line deviation of nasal septum surgery, while using low-temperature plasma radiofrequency ablation of inferior turbinate hypertrophy satisfactory outcome, the report is as follows. A clinical data 1.1 General information on 108 cases of patients in this group of men and 60 cases, female 48 cases; aged 18 to 55 years, mean 35 years of age; course of 2 to 30 years, with an average of 10 years. The main clinical manifestations of nasal congestion, headache, nose bleeding, tears wait. Preoperatively in all cases were characterized by nasal endoscopy and paranasal sinus coronal CT scanning: nasal septum deviation was “C”-type 38 cases, “S”-type 30 cases, “spike” type in 25 cases, “ridge” type in 15 cases. All the cases are associated with inferior turbinate hypertrophy, and is not sensitive to the ephedrine. With sinusitis and nasal polyps in patients with non-credited to this group. 1.2 Operation Methods WOLF produced by 0 ° nasal endoscopy, endoscopic surgery system and television surveillance equipment. Patient was supine, 1% tetracaine plus epinephrine 1:1000 convergence of cotton piece of narcotic nasal two times, taking 1% lidocaine with 1:1000 epinephrine solution for nasal septum in