It is often pointed out that intranasal structural abnormalities might constitute a non-specific factor of nasal allergy, aggravating the symptoms and preventing a smooth healing of the disease. In such instances, submucous resection or conchotomy has been reported effective in not a few instances.
Furthermore, concurrence of chronic sinusitis, as seen in many Japanese nasal allergy patients, presents a complicated picture, where nasal surgery should become a part of treatment for a successful cure of nasal. allergy. Nasal operations, reconstruction of the lateral nasal wall and submucous resection, were performed in the.cases with nasal allergy which had not responded to one-year of conventional treatments of nasal allergy seemingly due to the concomitant presence of instanasal structural abnormalities or chronic sinusitis.
The authors followed the patients for 1.5 to 2.5 years postoperatively and report the results of clinical evaluation of the effect of nasal surgery in cases with nasal allergy.
