[Clinical study about 18 cases with endoscopic surgery for nasal inverted papilloma].

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the method and value of the nose endoscopic surgery on thoroughly cutting the nose inverted papilloma. METHOD: Eighteen patients with nasal inverted papilloma were treated by the nasal endoscopic surgery were analyzed retrospectively. Among all patients, the nasal inverted papilloma excision by endoscopy was in 14 cases, the nasal endoscopy uniting Caldwell-Luc surgery was in 4 cases. RESULT: The average duration of follow-up was 2.6 years. No complications were found in 18 cases. Relapse was found in 3 cases during the follow-up period, showing 16.7% relapse rate. CONCLUSION: The nasal endoscopic surgery to cut the nasal inverted papilloma is a very safe and effective method,and the curative effect of the nose endoscopic uniting Caldwell-Luc surgery is very useful to these cases which the papilloma had destroyed generally into the maxillary sinus.