title: [Clinical study about 18 cases with endoscopic surgery for nasal inverted papilloma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the method and value of the nose endoscopic surgery on thoroughly cutting the nose inverted papilloma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighteen patients with nasal inverted papilloma were treated by the nasal endoscopic surgery were analyzed retrospectively. Among all patients, the nasal inverted papilloma excision by endoscopy was in 14 cases, the nasal endoscopy uniting Caldwell-Luc surgery was in 4 cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average duration of follow-up was 2.6 years. No complications were found in 18 cases. Relapse was found in 3 cases during the follow-up period, showing 16.7% relapse rate.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The nasal endoscopic surgery to cut the nasal inverted papilloma is a very safe and effective method,and the curative effect of the nose endoscopic uniting Caldwell-Luc surgery is very useful to these cases which the papilloma had destroyed generally into the maxillary sinus.
authors: Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the First People's Hospital of Jiujiang, Jiujiang, 332000, China. zhanshanqiang@163.com
authors: Shanqiang
authors: S
authors: Zhan
authors: Jie
authors: J
authors: Tang
authors: Fanli
authors: F
authors: Kong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D059747:Nasal Surgical Procedures; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D018308:Papilloma, Inverted / Q000601:surgery*; D012189:Retrospective Studies