Author:
Wormald P. J.,Prescott C. A. J.
Abstract
AbstractMethods of evaluating adenoidal size pre-operatively are controversial. Symptoms and clinical evaluation have been both advocated and condemned. Depending on the methodology, measurement of the radiological adenoidal shadow has been difficult to correlate with the clinical patency of the nasopharyngeal airway and to the actual size of the removed adenoid.Four different methods were used to measure the adenoidal size on 74 radiographs. The methods were evaluated against the degree to which the adenoids obstructed the nasopharynx on flexible endoscopy of the postnasal space. Obstructive symptomatology was also evaluated against the degree of obstruction.The radiological method that best correlated to the endoscopic findings was that of Cohen and Konak (1985). However, obstructive symptomatology had the overall highest correlation to endoscopic findings.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Otorhinolaryngology,General Medicine
Reference14 articles.
1. Radiographic evaluation of adenoidal size in children: adenoidal-nasopharyngeal ratio;Fujioka;American Journal of Radiology,1979
2. An introduction to clinical epidemiology;Epstein;South Africa Medical Journal,1988
3. Modern Assessment of Tonsils and Adenoids
4. A radiological study of the adenoid in normal children
5. The value of signs and symptoms in the diagnosis of enlarged adenoids
Cited by
116 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献