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Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: Evaluation, Surgery, And Follow‐Up Of 250 Patients
Author(s) -
Levine Howard L.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-199001000-00016
Subject(s) - medicine , surgery , functional endoscopic sinus surgery , chronic sinusitis , sinusitis , sinus (botany) , endoscopic sinus surgery , endoscopic surgery , endoscopy , botany , biology , genus
Abstract Although much has been written about the surgical technique of functional endoscopic sinus surgery, little has appeared about its long‐term results. Two hundred fifty patients underwent endoscopic nasal office evaluations and subsequent functional endoscopic sinus surgery (42 unilateral + 208 bilateral = 458 procedures) for nasal polypo‐sis and chronic sinusitis from January 1986 to June 1988. Immediate postoperative data indicated that 8.3% developed minor complications and 0.7% developed major complications. Two hundred twenty‐one patients were available for long‐term follow‐up at 12 to 42 months (mean = 17 months) with success rates of 89.7% for relief of sinonasal polyposis and 80.2% for relief of chronic sinusitis.