Post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage: A retrospective comparison of abscess- and elective tonsillectomy

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作者
Lehnerdt, G [1 ]
Senska, K [1 ]
Jahnke, K [1 ]
Fischer, M [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Duisburg Essen, Dept Otorhinolaryngol, DE-45122 Essen, Germany
关键词
age; gender; peritonsillar abscess; postoperative haemorrhage; quinsy; tonsillectomy;
D O I
10.1080/00016480510012336
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R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];
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100213 ;
摘要
Conclusion. There is no increased risk of postoperative haemorrhage for abscess tonsillectomies in comparison to elective tonsillectomies. Objective. There is still controversy as regards the optimal management of peritonsillar abscess. Opponents of tonsillectomy a chaud cite an increased postoperative bleeding risk. Most authors who compared the risks of postoperative haemorrhage after tonsillectomy a chaud and tonsillectomy a froid did not take into consideration criteria such as the age and gender of the patients or the experience of the surgeon. We aimed to eliminate this bias by performing a retrospective study in which a large series of abscess tonsillectomies were compared with an age- and gender- matched group of elective tonsillectomies. Material and methods. All patients had been operated on at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Duisburg- Essen between March 1994 and August 2000. There were 350 patients in the abscess tonsillectomy group ( 61% male, 39% female; mean age 31.8 years; range 3 - 88 years) and 311 in the elective tonsillectomy comparison group ( 61% male, 39% female; mean age 30.0 years; range 2 - 83 years). Results. In the abscess tonsillectomy group, 9 patients ( 2.6%; confidence level 1.1 - 4.8%) had postoperative haemorrhages which required treatment under general anaesthesia, compared to 17 ( 5.5%; confidence level 3.2 - 8.6%) in the age- and gender- matched group of " selected'' elective tonsillectomies. The difference between these two rates was not significant ( p = 0.056). The fairly high rate of haemorrhages in the elective tonsillectomy group was mainly due to the effect of the age- matching procedure, which excluded a considerable number of usually unproblematic tonsillectomies for tonsillar hyperplasia in young children. Moreover, our results show that there is a learning curve for surgeons performing tonsillectomies with regard to postoperative haemorrhages.
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