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Powered turbinectomy VS. powered turbinoplasty : A comparative study
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Abstract
The aim of the study was to compare the surgical outcome between powered turbinectomy and powered turbinoplasty as two surgical procedures in the treatment of hypertrophied inferior turbinate. Prospective randomized controlled trial study.Tertiary academic hospital (Kaser Alainy school of medicine). Forty patients were randomized into two study groups; twenty patients underwent powered turbinectomy and the other twenty patients underwent powered turbinoplasty. Assessment was done after 1 week, 4 weeks and 12 weeks. Postoperative assessment of the subjective symptoms (i. e., nasal obstruction and nasal discharge). Postoperative assessment of the patients in the outpatient clinic by endoscopic examination and rhinomanometry. There was no significant difference between the two groups regarding nasal obstruction. However, powered turbinoplasty had postoperative advantages over powered turbinectomy in crustation, blood clots and nasal discharge. Both surgical procedures are promising to achieve the optimum reduction of the turbinate and the minimal postoperative morbidity