Abstract
Davison pointed out in 1953 that his purpose in treating sinusitis was to utilize the smallest amount of surgery that would produce permanent relief of symptoms. By 1963 he had become convinced that extensive disease required extensive surgery. Hyperplastic rhinosinusitis is treated by a variety of surgical techniques including polypectomy, turbinate cautery, submucous resection of the turbinates or nasal septum, anterior ethmoidectomy, and spheno-ethmoidectomy. Sixty-eight patients are presented who have undergone bilateral sphenoethmoidectomy between January, 1969, and January, 1974. These patients were predominantly allergic, with a high percentage of previous polypectomies and desensitization which failed to control their recurring nasal polyps. Ten patients were lost to follow-up. Forty-seven of 68 patients have had no recurrence of polyps in from 12 to 60 months. All patients continued to have mucosal manifestations of allergy or infection, but the recurrence of late polyps was limited to 11 patients. The spheno-ethmoidectomy technique is utilized, stressing complete removal of the middle turbinate. Kidder has shown an improved rate of polyp control in patients following ethmoidectomy with middle turbinate removal rather ...Continue Reading
Citations
Nov 19, 1997·The Laryngoscope·J B Jacobs
Jun 1, 1994·The Laryngoscope·W Lawson
Oct 1, 2010·Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery : Official Publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India·S P GulatiAnju Ghai
Apr 29, 2009·Auris, Nasus, Larynx·Klaus BummJoachim Hornung
Mar 10, 2009·International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology·Vanessa SiedekAndreas Leunig
Sep 1, 1980·The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology·R G SalvinM Sundaram
Oct 23, 2013·Clinical Pediatrics·Petros V VlastarakosThomas P Nikolopoulos
Jul 21, 2000·The Annals of Otology, Rhinology, and Laryngology·T E Havas, D S Lowinger
Feb 22, 2011·American Journal of Rhinology & Allergy·Hikmet BasmakErtugrul Colak
Apr 9, 2005·Allergy·W FokkensUNKNOWN EAACI
Dec 17, 2008·Acta Oto-laryngologica·Daniele MarchioniLivio Presutti
Sep 1, 1982·Otolaryngology--head and Neck Surgery : Official Journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery·B S Eichel
Mar 1, 1982·Otolaryngology--head and Neck Surgery : Official Journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery·W H FriedmanP Linford
Dec 4, 2004·Otolaryngology--head and Neck Surgery : Official Journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery·Eli O MeltzerUNKNOWN American Rhinologic Society
Dec 1, 1994·Otolaryngology--head and Neck Surgery : Official Journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery·G P KatsantonisM Bruns
Jan 1, 1982·Archives of Oto-rhino-laryngology·W Draf
Oct 27, 2006·American Journal of Rhinology·Robert NaclerioFuad M Baroody
Dec 4, 2004·The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology·Eli O MeltzerUNKNOWN American Rhinologic Society (ARS)