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Cauterization of inferior nasal turbinate for idiopathic headache
Qasim A Khader1, Khader J Abdul-Baqi, Abbas H Mansour
1Department of Otolaryngology, Zarka Hospital, Ministry of Health, Zarka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Objective:
Idiopathic headache is a stressful complaint, whose treatment is not well established. Our study is an attempt to examine the relationship between idiopathic headache and inferior turbinate cauterization as a surgical treatment, and to explain the central physiological effect of cauterization.
Methods:
Thirty-four patients, 15 females and 19 males complaining of idiopathic headache were treated by inferior turbinate cauterization. Cauterization of the inferior-medial aspect of the turbinate was carried out once under local anesthesia for few seconds. This study was performed between November 1993 and December 1996, a joint project of the Zarka Government Hospital, Zarka and Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Results:
More than 82% of the patients showed significant improvement in the sense of decreased headache.
Conclusion:
Cautery of the nasal turbinate could be a novel method for treatment of idiopathic headache.
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