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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Adenoids: Comparison of radiological assessment methods with clinical and endoscopic findings
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, Volume 106, No. 4, Year 1992
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Methods 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. © 1992, JLO (1984) Limited. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Wormald, Peter John
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Prescott, Christopher A.J.
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Statistics
Citations: 160
Authors: 2
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1017/S0022215100119449
ISSN:
00222151