Incidence of Complications for Subtotal Ionized Field Ablation of the Tonsils

Abstract

Ionized field ablation subtotal tonsillectomy may offer an alternative to traditional subcapsular tonsillar surgery with a decreased incidence of postoperative complications. Further study is necessary to establish the complication rate of this technique.

Safety and efficacy of powered intracapsular tonsillectomy in children: a multi-center retrospective case series

“…Unfortunately, these patients were followed post-operatively only for a 14-day period, and thus the risk of tonsillar regrowth was not assessed. A larger series of 528 patients was published by the same group with a follow-up period of a minimum of 4 weeks after surgery, but again, no comments on regrowth of remaining tonsil tissue were made [28]. Our technique differs significantly from previously reported techniques for tonsillotomy [4].…”

A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Coblation versus Dissection Tonsillectomy in Adult Patients

“…There are various studies describing the use of coblation in tonsillectomy with varying conclusions regarding intraoperative blood loss, postoperative hemorrhage rates, postoperative pain, and healing rates [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24].…”

Making sense out of the tonsillectomy literature

“…Two (8%) [63,68] of the 24 studies that included both adults and children did not report the age range (the range in years between the youngest and oldest patient) of the pediatric population and 11 (46%) of these 24 mixed population papers did not report the mean age [1,7,14,26,36,64,[68][69][70][71].…”

“…In the eleven (15%) of the 75 studies in which comparison between techniques was described, statistical significance was not reported [1,4,23,35,40,57,61,[64][65][66][67]. Table 6)…”