OVERVIEW ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ADENOIDECTOMY

Minh Tuấn Đỗ, Thị Bích Đào Phạm

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Objectives: 1. Describe the characteristics of studies on the effectiveness of adenoidectomy. 2. Describe the results of adenoidectomy in general. Subjects and methods: overview of arguments about the effectiveness of adenoidectomy. The number found with 3 databases Pubmed, Google Scholar, Library of Ha Noi Medical University is 1233. After excluding duplicates 1028  documents were reviewed for titles and abstracts. In this step, remove 978 the remaining inappropriate documents 50 documents are included in the full-text analysis. After analyzing the full text articles 16 documents were included in the study. Results: Among the 16 studies included in the analysis, 15 studies found adenoidectomy to be effective. Adenoidectomy is effective in simple adenoiditis with stage 4 adenoid hypertrophy, otitis media with effusion, recurrent acute otitis media, upper respiratory tract obstruction. VA inflammation and indications for adenoidectomy do not differ between men and women as well as age, adenoidectomy due to simple adenoiditis is 100% due to stage 4 adenoid overgrowth, adenoidectomy is often accompanied by disease.

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