Abstract
Eighty-one infants, of ages ranging from 5 to 14 years, with infantile sinusitis accompanied by adenoid vegetation were treated by adenotomy alone with a view to investigate the influence of adenotomy upon the chronic sinusitis.
The therapeutic effect of this treatment was: 24 cases of healing (29.6%), 13 cases of significant improvement (16.0%), 10 cases of decrease of symptoms (12.3%) and 34 cases of ineffectiveness (41.9%). The effect of this surgical treatment, observed from the intranasal symptoms classified as slight, medium and advanced degrees, revealed that the healing and the significant improvement were 75% in the slight cases and 46.6% in the medium cases, while ineffectiveness was 82.6% in the advanced cases. When classified by the age, the healing tendency was greater with the infants under 8 or 9 years of age than with those above that age.
Summarily, the slighter the clinical symptoms and the younger the patient, the more therapeutic effect can be expected from adenotomy.
