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Carbon dioxide laser turbinectomy. An electron microscopic study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Samy Elwany  and
M. Hesham Abdel-Moneim
Samy Elwany*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Alexandria Medical School, Alexandria, Egypt.
M. Hesham Abdel-Moneim
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Alexandria Medical School, Alexandria, Egypt.
*
Address for correspondence: Samy Elwany, M.D., PO Box 267, Alexandria 21311, Egypt. Fax: 203 4839940
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Abstract

Ten patients with chronic non-allergic rhinitis and presenting mainly with nasal obstruction due to hypertrophied inferior turbinates were subjected to laser turbinectomy using CO2. Tiny biopsies were taken, at the time of surgery as well as one monthlater, and were processed for transmission electron microscopy. The ultrastructural observations included: early epithelial loss which wasfollowed by prompt regeneration of healthy epithelium, decreased number and activity of the seromucinous glands, fibrosis of the connective tissue stroma, as well as diminished number and congestion of the cavernous blood spaces. These observations were discussed in view of the excellent clinical response of the patients.

Keywords

Rhinitis, vasomotorLaser surgeryTurbinatesMicroscopy, electron

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 111 , Issue 10 , October 1997 , pp. 931 - 934
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1997

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