Surgery is the best treatment method for nasal polyps. As the nasal cavity is adjacent to the eye and brain, the surgery has certain risks, especially with the eye only separated by a very thin bone plate, called paper-like plate, which can be easily damaged by careless operation during surgery. Nowadays, nasal polyp surgery is operated in the nasal cavity, and there is no incision on the surface skin. With the promotion of sinus endoscopic surgery technology, it has become a routine operation. Under good surgical conditions, an experienced surgeon can complete it in an hour and a half, or even half an hour, and the patient recovers quickly after the operation because it is painless and the operation time is short with little intraoperative bleeding.
How is nasal polyp surgery done?
Nasal polyps are mainly manifested by nasal non-ventilation, odor and nasal sound in speech. Hemorrhagic nasal polyps can have nasal bleeding. When nasal polyps are found, surgery is the best treatment for nasal polyps. Because the nasal cavity is adjacent to the eye and brain, surgery can be dangerous, especially when the eye is separated by a very thin bone plate called a paper-like plate, which can be easily damaged if not done carefully during surgery.
Nasal polyp surgery requires anesthesia. Depending on the hospital, general anesthesia or local anesthesia can be used. When the surgery is performed under local anesthesia, the patient is awake and the pain will be aggravated by tension, so you must cooperate with the surgeon during the surgery and do not influence the surgeon’s judgment. General anesthesia is a painless surgery with the help of an anesthesiologist. Hospitals that are able to do so can perform controlled hypotension at the same time as general anesthesia, resulting in less intraoperative bleeding, clearer fields, and fewer complications. If the nasal cavity is then given surface anesthesia with a certain proportion of local anesthetics and vasoconstrictor solution under general anesthesia, the effect will be better.
Nasal endoscopy is the ideal method for treating rhinitis, sinusitis and nasal polyps, and is known as “a revolutionary advancement in sinus surgery”. The nasal endoscopy system is equipped with a cold light source camera and monitor, which can penetrate deep into the nasal cavity and display all the pathological changes hidden in the nasal cavity clearly. The small 3.5 mm hole can magnify the diseased tissues 500 times, and the whole process is clear and visible at a glance, allowing the surgery to achieve finer results and to proceed to areas that were not easily reached before. Compared with traditional surgery, nasal endoscopic aspiration of adenoids has the characteristics of clear field, precise operation, complete excision and convenient hemostasis, avoiding the lack of blindness and roughness of traditional surgical operation and not easy to damage normal structures. Therefore, nasal endoscopic adenoidectomy is 1 to 3 times safer and more effective. It transforms the traditional destructive surgery into a functional surgery based on complete removal of lesions, preserving as much as possible the physiological function of the nasal cavity, with less trauma, faster recovery, and a much higher cure rate, reducing patient pain.
Since nasal polyps are not only confined to the nose, but can also invade the surrounding sinuses, the traditional method of removing nasal polyps using a trap is prone to recurrence. Nasal endoscopic surgery can not only reach deeper and hidden areas and completely remove nasal polyps, but also reduce the recurrence rate of nasal polyps through surgical operations that conform to human physiological functions.