EXTERNAL SEPTORHINOPLASTY IN CHILDREN - OUTCOME AND EFFECT ON GROWTH OF SEPTAL EXCISION AND REIMPLANTATION

Citation
Pj. Walker et al., EXTERNAL SEPTORHINOPLASTY IN CHILDREN - OUTCOME AND EFFECT ON GROWTH OF SEPTAL EXCISION AND REIMPLANTATION, Archives of otolaryngology, head & neck surgery, 119(9), 1993, pp. 984-989
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Otorhinolaryngology,Surgery
ISSN journal
08864470
Volume
119
Issue
9
Year of publication
1993
Pages
984 - 989
Database
ISI
SICI code
0886-4470(1993)119:9<984:ESIC-O>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
Outcome and effect on nasal growth of external septorhinoplasty was ev aluated in 32 children. All had septal disease anterior to the nasal s pine. In all cases, the cartilaginous septum was totally excised, refa shioned, and then reinserted. Sixteen children with follow-up for more than 2 years were identified. Nine children had preoperative and post operative nasal airflow studies and demonstrated a reduction in total nasal airway resistance, from a mean untreated value of 6.1 cm of wate r per centimeter per second preoperatively to a mean of 2.5 cm of wate r per centimeter per second postoperatively. In 10 of these 16 childre n, six post-operative anthropometric measures and one index were deter mined, and these measurements were within the range of age- and sex-sp ecific normative data from the Craniofacial Measurements Laboratory at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario.