Talaat M, el-Sabawy E, Baky F A, Raheem A A
J Laryngol Otol. 1987 May;101(5):452-60. doi: 10.1017/s0022215100101987.
Twenty patients, 10 allergic and 10 non-allergic, with chronic hypertrophic rhinitis and presenting mainly with bilateral nasal obstruction were subjected to submucosal diathermy of their inferior turbinates. There was significant post-operative improvement clinically, histopathologically and histochemically in the non-allergic group, while the improvement was less obvious in the allergic cases. The post-operative clinical improvement as regards rhinorrhea and sneezing was not as marked as that for nasal obstruction. Evaluation of the results showed that submucous diathermy of inferior turbinates is a good line of treatment for cases of chronic hypertrophic rhinitis, with better results in the non-allergic group of patients.
20例慢性肥厚性鼻炎患者，其中10例为变应性，10例为非变应性，主要表现为双侧鼻塞，接受了下鼻甲黏膜下透热疗法。非变应性组在临床、组织病理学和组织化学方面术后均有显著改善，而变应性病例的改善则不太明显。术后在鼻漏和打喷嚏方面的临床改善不如鼻塞明显。结果评估表明，下鼻甲黏膜下透热疗法是慢性肥厚性鼻炎病例的一种良好治疗方法，在非变应性患者组中效果更好。
