Endoscopic submucous inferior turbinate reduction with microdebrider : a study of 50 cases

Abstract EN

Background / Aim : Sub mucous resection of the inferior turbinate's is a recorded surgical technique for reducing their size to achieve patent nasal airways in situations where an enlarged turbinate's cause chronic nasal airway obstruction.

Many other techniques and complications have been applied and evaluated in the literature.

We studied endoscopic assisted micro debrided sub mucous inferior turbinate reduction as a technique performed with endoscopy and micro debride and assessed its success and complication rates.

Study Design : A prospective study of 50 adult patients who underwent endoscopic sub mucous resection of the inferior turbinate's with a micro debrided.

Patients and methods : Patient questionnaires were used for subjective assessment of symptoms before and after the procedure.

Each patient's inferior turbinate's was graded for size from I to EI before and 8 weeks after surgery for objective analysis.

Results : The advantage of the micro debrided technique with endoscopy is the precise control of the amount and location of tissue that is removed from the sub mucosal plane.

The complications encountered with this technique are limited to postoperative bleeding that occurred in 2.2 % of turbinate's.

There was dryness and crusting in 5 patients and no post-operative foul odor or excessive removal of tissue.

Conclusion : The results show that endoscopic sub mucous resection of inferior turbinate's with micro debrided is a safe method of achieving turbinate size reduction with minimal morbidity.