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A turbinectomy or turbinoplasty (preserving the mucosal layer) is a surgical procedure, that removes tissue, and sometimes bone, of the turbinates in the nasal passage, particularly the inferior nasal concha. The procedure is usually performed to relieve nasal obstructions. [1]
Altered nasal anatomy after bilateral subtotal inferior turbinectomy, the removal of most turbinate tissue. Specialty: Otolaryngology: Symptoms: Sensation of nasal suffocation despite clear airway: Complications: Hyperventilation syndrome, depression, anxiety, fatigue: Usual onset: Following surgery or injury to the nasal interior: Differential ...
Nasal surgery is a specialty including the removal of nasal obstruction that cannot be achieved by medication and nasal reconstruction. Currently, it comprises four approaches, namely rhinoplasty, septoplasty, sinus surgery, and turbinoplasty, targeted at different sections of the nasal cavity in the order of their external to internal positions.
Inferior turbinate reduction is a surgery to reduce the size of the inferior turbinates. There are different techniques, including bipolar radiofrequency ablation (also known as somnoplasty), electrocautery, and use of cold steel instruments (eg, microdebrider). Inferior turbinectomy is a surgery to remove the inferior turbinates.
Risks of reduction of the inferior or middle turbinates include empty nose syndrome. [8] As Steven M. Houser suggested, "this is especially true in cases of anterior inferior turbinate (IT) resection because of its important role in the internal nasal valve." [9] Concha bullosa is an abnormal pneumatization of the middle turbinate, which may ...
A concha bullosa is a pneumatized (air-filled) cavity within a nasal concha, also known as a turbinate. [1] Bullosa refers to the air-filled cavity within the turbinate. [1] It is a normal anatomic variant seen in up to half the population.
Septoplasty (Latin: saeptum, "septum" + Ancient Greek: πλάσσειν, romanized: plassein, "to shape"), or alternatively submucous septal resection and septal reconstruction, [1] is a corrective surgical procedure done to straighten a deviated nasal septum – the nasal septum being the partition between the two nasal cavities. [2]
Procedures performed as part of a functional rhinoplasty typically include septoplasty, inferior turbinate reduction, and spreader graft placement. Results. Can be good if performed by an experienced practitioner. As in all plastic surgery procedures, there can be some unpredictability, and biologic systems can heal in different ways.