Clinical results of plastic surgery of deviated nasal septum in developmental age
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2010, Vol 14, Issue 4
Abstract
<b>Introduction.</b> Child nasal septum operation is a method implemented in clinical practice in the 1950s. Its performance in<br />Poland started in 1979. To date, over 3000 such operations have been performed and analysed in the Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw.<br><b>Aim.</b> To perform an analysis of patients operated on because of deviation of the nasal septum during 1995-2009, chosen at random. The aim of the paper is to determine the clinical results of nasal septum operations in developmental age.<br><b>Material and methods.</b> The study included children operated on for deviation of the nasal septum in the Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw during 1995-2009. The patients were evaluated on the basis of precise medical history, laryngological examination and anterior rhinomanometry.<br><b>Results.</b> In the majority of patients we gained an improvement of the clinical picture.<br><b>Discussion. </b>Our research indicates that results of septoplasty include proper nasal patency and general normal development of the treated child.<br><b>Conclusions.</b> Septoplasty in children gives good clinical and laboratory results.
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Mieczysław Chmielik, Jolanta Jadczyszyn, Magdalena Frąckiewicz
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