Purpose Adenoid hypertrophy (AH) is common among young children. Adenoid-based surgery and drug therapy could be applied for symptomatic AH patients, yet the treatment decision is difficult to make ...

Young age and adenoidectomy without tonsillectomy are risk factors for repeat adenoidectomies, results from a new study suggest. The data come from one of the largest studies of its kind yet conducted ...

RUDN doctors have discovered genetic and viral causes of a frequent ENT disease in children - adenoid hypertrophy. The results are published in Life. Adenoid hypertrophy (AH), or their overgrowth, is ...

The adenoid is a single clump or pad of lymphatic tissue located in the nasopharyngeal space on the posterior pharyngeal wall about one inch superior to the base of the uvula. Laterally, the adenoid ...

Children with recurrent upper respiratory infections often undergo surgery to remove their adenoids, but new research suggests that surgery is no more effective than waiting to see if the frequency of ...

To investigate the impacts of body weight status on surgical outcomes and shifts of body weight status after adenotonsillectomy(T&A) in children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). From 2009 to 2011, ...

June 22, 2010 — Adenoid surface biofilm formation appears to be associated with the pathology of chronic otitis media with effusion (COME), the most common chronic ear disorder in pediatric patients, ...