Title
Assessment of nasopharyngeal airway volume in pediatric patients with adenoid hypertrophy by cone-beam computerized tomography
Other title
Volumen de la vía aérea nasofaríngea en pacientes pediátricos con hipertrofia adenoidea: Evaluación por tomografía computarizada de haz cónico
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Cueva-Príncipe L.
Ballona-Chambergo P.
Alva-Cuneo C.
Publisher(s)
Universidad de Concepcion
Abstract
Objective: Adenoid hypertrophy is a disease whose most serious effect is the obstruction of the nasopharyngeal airway, leading to severe dentoskeletal deformities. The aim of this study was to determine the volume of the nasopharynx in patients with different grades of adenoid hypertrophy. Materials and methods: A retrospective study was conducted. One hundred and twenty-five cone beam computed tomographies of 8 to 12-year-old pediatric patients, obtained from the 2014-2017 database of the School of Dentistry of Universidad de San Martin de Porres, were selected. Romexis 3.6.0 software (PlanMeca®, Finland) was used. In order to make a diagnosis and determine the grade of hypertrophy (Grade 1= healthy, Grade 2= mild, Grade 3= moderate and Grade 4= severe) quantitative and qualitative methods were used; grades 2, 3 and 4 were considered pathological. The same software was used to determine the volume of the nasopharynx. Results: Grade 1 hypertrophy was 44%, mild 36,8%, moderate 13,6% and severe 5,6%, accounting for a pathological adenoid hypertrophy prevalence of 56%. The mean volume of the nasopharynx was 4.985, 3.375, 2.154 and 0.944cm3 for grades 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. Conclusions: There is a high prevalence of pathological adenoid hypertrophy (56%). The volume of the nasopharynx decreases according to the severity of the adenoid hypertrophy.
Start page
220
End page
227
Volume
8
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Pediatría
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85073731380
Source
Journal of Oral Research
ISSN of the container
07192460
Sponsor(s)
Conflict of interests: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Ethics approval: Approved by the Research Review Committee No. 028-2017 (10/19/2017) and by the Research Ethics Committee No. 007-2017 (24/10/2017), of the Facultad de Odontología de la Universidad de San Martín de Porres. Funding: None. Authors’ contributions: All authors contributed at different stages of the project, all rea authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements: None.
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