[Endoscopic sinus surgery, clinical observation with 165 cases].
OBJECTIVE
To observe the long-term curative effect of endoscopic sinus surgery(ESS).


METHODS
165 cases (276 sides) of chronic sinusitis and nasal polyps were treated with ESS, and following up survey 1 year post-operatively.


RESULTS
It was found that 107 cases were cured (64.8%), 43 cases achieved symptomatic relief (26.1%), 15 cases remained failure (9.1%), and the effective rate was 90.9%, mainly operative complication was adhesion of nasal cavity.


CONCLUSIONS
The curative effect of ESS was successful. It is effective to use reasonable concentration hemostasin to hemostasia, it is very important to treat middle turbinate precisely, and regularly follow-up could reduce operation complications.
Xie
Yunping
Y
Department of Otolaryngology, 180th Hospital of PLA, Quanzhou 362000.
Wu
Jian
J
Huang
Jifeng
J
Que
Zhenru
Z
Cai
Jiyi
J
Huang
Qinhui
Q
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009298:Nasal Polyps / Q000601:surgery*; D012852:Sinusitis / Q000601:surgery*; D014420:Turbinates / Q000601:surgery