title: Clinical effect analysis of microscopic surgery for epiglottis cysts with coblation.
abstract: This study aims to explore the effects and advantages of coblation combined with microscopy to treat epiglottis cysts. Ninety patients with epiglottis cysts were randomly assigned to three groups: the first group: marsupialisation + electric coagulation group, n = 30; the second group: marsupialisation + coblation, n = 30; and the third group: marsupialisation + coblation + microsurgery, n = 30. To compare the cure rate, intraoperative bleeding volume, postoperative pain, operation time and postoperative complications were investigated among these three groups. The comparison among three procedures showed a significant difference for intraoperative bleeding volume, operation time and postoperative pain (P < 0.05), whereas no significant difference was observed for cure rate (P > 0.05). These three procedures are effective in treating epiglottis cysts. Microscopic surgery with coblation has the advantages of less bleeding, short procedure duration, less pain and few complications. Thus, microscopic surgery is worthy of clinical application.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Bao-Chun
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Zhi-Yao
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Ze-Li
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Shu-Zhi
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Jia-Hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Han
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Mao-Mao
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Bao-Zhu
authors.initials: BZ
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Qing-Hong
authors.initials: QH
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Department of Otohinolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital of PLA General Hospital, No. 51 Fucheng Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 China.
authors.forename: Chen-Yong
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Zhou
keywords: Coblation; Epiglottis cysts; Microsurgery; Surgery