How do pediatric adenoidectomy and adenotonsillotomy influence maternal psychological status?

We conducted a study to determine the impact that pediatric adenoidectomy or adenotonsillotomy (adenoidectomy with a partial tonsillectomy) had on the short-term psychological status of the children's mothers. Mothers of 100 treated children were examined with the 14-item Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaire immediately before the operation and 3 days afterward; to establish a baseline for control purposes, they completed another questionnaire 10 days postoperatively. We also compiled data for the mothers' demographic information and the children's physical status.

Perioperative antibiotic in adenoidectomy with partial tonsillectomy: a randomized trial.

Objectives: To examine potential benefits of perioperative antibiotic therapy in children undergoing adenotonsillotomy.

Methods: Adenoidectomy with tonsillotomy was performed in 124 children with obstructive symptoms, aged 5-7 years. Of these, 120 completed the study.

[Treatment of pain in patients after tonsillectomy].

The aim of the study was to evaluate post-operative pain in patients after tonsillectomy, treated with non-steroid anti-inflammatory and opioid drugs. A group of 57 patients aged from 16 to 53 years was examined. 32 of them were treated with ketoprofen (Ketonal, Lek) in a dose 100 mg, 3 times a day and the remaining 25 with tramadol hydrochloride (Tramal) in daily doses 150-200 mg.

[Sinonasal haemangiopericytoma of the nasal septum removed under endoscopic guidance].

Haemangiopericytomas originate in extravascular cells (pericytes). They are well-differentiated tumours with low potential for local recurrence or metastasis. The most common presenting symptoms are nasal obstruction and recurrent epistaxis.

[Pain in patients undergoing day-case ENT surgery].

Otorhinolaryngological surgical procedures are nowadays frequently performed as day-cases. This makes it possible to shorten the length of hospitalisation however the surgeon's responsibility connected with the treatment of peri-operative pain is greater. The experience of pain that follows some operations performed on the pharynx is most intense.