Abstract

GRILLO, Calogero et al. Evaluación del adenoidismo en los niños: imagen endoscópica. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2000, vol.39, n.3, pp. 227-229. ISSN 1561-2945.

Adenoidism is a complex syndrome whose main cause is generally identified with hyperplasia of the tonsils and nasopharynx, but it also involves diverse systems and structures that even when they are not close to the nasopharynx are functionally related to it. The local affections characterized by usually purulent nasal obstruction and rhinorrea are associated with diseases of the sinuses (sinusitis), with affections of the ear (otalgia, serous or serouspurulent otorrhoea or both, as well as hypoacusia), with larynx diseases (dysphonia and aphonia), with affections of the lower airways (cough, recurrent bronchitis), with face bone diseases (ogival palate, deficiency of dental oclussion), as well as systemic affections (sleep apnea, OSAS). The optic fibre endoscopy is the selection test to asses the quality and extension of adenoids hypertrophy

Keywords : ADENOIDS [pathology]; ENDOSCOPY [methods].

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