[The present methods of diagnosing adenoidal hypertrophy in children].

The role of enlarged adenoids and tonsils in upper airway obstruction has become well-established earlier, thus, adenoidectomy with, or without, tonsillectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in the paediatric population. Since the difficulty to objectively assess the adenoidal tissue and the nasopharyngeal airway in children, it is necessary to find out an accurate method of measuring these structures pre-operatively. In this work, the following methods are described: recording of obstructive symptoms, transoral posterior rhinoscopic examination, radiological evaluation, such as lateral radiography of the adenoid and nasopharyngeal magnetic resonance imaging, transnasal fiberoscopic examination, acoustic rhinometry and other.