A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF DIAGNOSTIC NASAL ENDOSCOPY IN CHILDREN

With the advent of nasal endoscopes, diagnostic nasal endoscopy can be routinely used in children, aimed at avoiding radiological exposure and thus minimise the detrimental effects on the child. A total of 50 patients between 2-12 years were included in our study .Rigid zero degree paediatric nasal endoscopes (2 mm) were used. The most common findings were mucosal congestion, inferior turbinate hypertrophy, adenoid hypertrophy, septal deviation and sino-nasal polyps. Many ENT manifestations of symptoms have origin in the sino-nasal and nasopharyngeal area. Use of diagnostic nasal endoscopy reveals different findings, most notable being adenoid hypertrophy, sino-nasal polyps and rhinosinusitis. Paediatric nasal endoscopy can go a long way in providing a safe way of diagnosis and avoiding the hazards of radiation exposure in a growing child.