title: Critical evaluation of adenoidectomy.
abstract: In two matched groups of thirty-two children, one which had tonsillectomy alone and the other which had tonsillectomy plus adenoidectomy, the symptoms generally attributed to adenoidal hypertrophy were equally common in both groups before operation and improved with equal frequency after operation whether or not the adenoids were removed.
mesh_terms: D000233:Adenoidectomy; D000234:Adenoids / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D008297:Male; D014068:Tonsillectomy