A technique for removing part of the inferior turbinate with a powered instrument is presented. This new technique is safe, quick, easy to teach, predictable and enables removal of the same amount of tissue and bone as is removed with other techniques of partial inferior turbinectomy.
CampbellJB, MorganDW, SnowDG, Total inferior turbinectomy: Benefits and complications. Am J Rhinol1990; 4(2):57–9.
3.
MooreGF, FreemanTJ, OgrenFP, Extended follow-up of total inferior turbinate resection for relief of chronic nasal obstruction. Laryngoscope1985; 95:1095–9.
4.
OphirD, SchindelD, HalperinD, Long-term follow-up of the effectiveness and safety of inferior turbinectomy. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery1992; 90(6):980–4.
5.
FanousN.Anterior turbinectomy. A new surgical approach to turbinate hypertrophy: A review of 220 cases. Arch Otolaryngol1986; 112:850–2.
6.
KimmelmanCP, JablonskiRD. The efficacy of turbinate surgery for the relief of nasal obstruction. Am J Rhinol1993; 7(1):25–9.
7.
KopkeRD, JacksonRL. Rhinitis, in BaileyBJ (ed): Head and Neck Surgery—Otolaryngology, 1st ed. Philadelphia, PA, JB Lippincott Co., 1988; 281.
8.
SetliffRCIII, ParsonsDS. The “Hummer:” New instrumentation for functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Am J Rhinol1994; 8(6):275–7.
