ADENOID SURGERY
Adenoid surgery may be indicated alone or in combination with tonsillectomy. Indications for adenoid surgery are adenoid hypertrophy causing snoring, speech abnormality, mouth breathing, sleep apnoea syndrome, recurrent rhinosinusitis, ear diseases. The surgery is done always under general anaesthesia. This surgery is performed usually along with tonsillectomy or else can be removed endoscopically with debrider and coablation. Complications of adenoidectomy includes hemorrhage, injury to eustachian tube opening, injury to pharyngeal musculature & vertebrae, nasopharyneal stenosis due to scarring.
