NCT00651092

Inferior Submucosal Turbinectomy Versus Blunt Turbinectomy for Inferior Turbinate Hypertrophy

to Compare Two Well Popularized Methods of Inferior Nasal Turbinectomy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Soroka University Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to compare endoscopic submucosal inferior turbinectomy to blunt turbinectomy in terms of subjective and objective parameters.

Detailed description

The two methods of nasal inferior turbinectomy are well popularized and in use for long periods of time. Endoscopic submucosal inferior turbinectomy is performed in our hospital and blunt turbinectomy is performed usually in privat clinics outside the hospital where there is no endoscopic equipment. We will examine both subjective (QOL questionaire) and objective parameters(rhinomanometry- a non invasive method to evaluate nasal airflow, saccharine test, nasal endoscopy) in our comparison of the outcome of these two methods.

Conditions

• Bilateral Inferior Turbinates Hypertrophy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	bilateral nasal inferior turbinectomy	the operation is performed endonasally under general or local anesthesia, the inferior turbinates are resected and removed
PROCEDURE	endoscopic submucosal resection of the inferior turbinates	surgery of the inferior turbinates- endonasally with endoscopic instruments and by performing submucosal resection of the nasal turbinates

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2008-05-01
• Completion: 2010-01-01
• First posted: 2008-04-02
• Last updated: 2008-04-02