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[Follow-up surveying the clinical effects after the endoscopic sinus surgery]
Ping Yan1, Chunlin Zhou, Yijing Ma
1Department of Otolaryngology, Daihua Hospital, Shanghai, 200237, China.
Objective:
To explore the follow-up time and the effect of intranasal glucocorticoid for chronic sinusitis and nasal polyps after endoscopic sinus surgery.
Method:
After the endoscopic sinus surgery, 30 cases of sinusitis and nasal polyps accepted the postsurgical care for the cavity, sinus washing, and intranasal local glucocorticoid rhinocort, then the clinical effects was follow-up surveyed.
Result:
Intranasal local glucocorticoid could evidently reduce the courses of dry and the epithelial metaplasia of nasal cavity and sinus.
Conclusion:
After the endoscopic sinus surgery, follow-up of endoscopic sinus, postsurgical care for the cavity and intranasal local glucocorticoid played equally important roles in treating sinusitis and nasal polyps.
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