Angular cheilitis after tonsillectomy
| Autor: | S. R. Ell, R.J.A. England, M. Lau |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Normal diet business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Diathermy Odds ratio Middle Aged Angular cheilitis medicine.disease Logistic regression Confidence interval Surgery Tonsillectomy Cheilitis Otorhinolaryngology medicine Humans Female Child Complication business |
| Zdroj: | Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences. 24:277-279 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2273 0307-7772 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2273.1999.00255.x |
| Popis: | The operation of tonsillectomy requires the oral cavity to be held open mechanically in an unconscious patient, and intra-oral instrumentation to occur. Angular cheilitis may arise as a result of this after operation. This can cause morbidity and delay the re-establishment of a normal diet. The aim of this study was to identify what factors increase the likelihood of developing this problem postoperatively. Sixty patients were randomly selected in a prospective manner. Preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative variables were recorded. The frequency of development of postoperative angular cheilitis was recorded. The prevalence of the condition was related to the prerecorded variables. Parametric analysis showed that the chance of developing angular cheilitis was directly related to the use of diathermy haemostasis (P = 0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that the odds ratio of developing this complication if diathermy was used is 3.5 (95% confidence intervals 0.99, 12.4) and operation difficulty may also be a relevant variable. No other recorded variables were found to be significant. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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