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Two-year follow-up with acoustic rhinometry in children
1Asthma and Allergy Research Group, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Background:
This is an explorative study of growth-related nasal geometry in healthy children.
Methods:
A total of 88 girls and boys between the ages of 4 and 16 years were followed over a period of 2 years by acoustic rhinometry. The registrations were correlated to height at each occasion.
Results:
Although both the minimal cross-sectional area and the nasal volume increased in all age groups over 7 years, large individual variations in nasal geometry led to a weak relationship with growth.
Conclusion:
In the undecongested nasal cavity in children, correlation of nasal geometry makes sense for height but not for age.
