Abstract
We perform contact Nd-YAG laser surgery for allergic and hypertrophic rhinitis.
Of 26 patients treated effectively, 11 could be evaluated by comparisons of subjective symptoms, nasal findings nasal mucosal reflex before and after Naphazoline-nitrate. All 11 cases showed nasal mucosal reflex.
One patient was examined histopathologically (preoperative, one month after surgery, three months after surgery). In preoperatively, the submucosa showed slight edema. One month after surgery, the epithelium had disappeared. Three months after surgery, the epithelium had regrown. The histopathological appearance of the nasal mucosa three months after laser surgery was similar to the preoperative appearance.
Contact Nd-YAG laser surgery had little affect on the subepithelial layer of the inferior turbinate.
