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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17797/zn1m3e9e41
Editor Recruited By: Sanjay Parikh, MD, FACS
Use of 2.7 telescopes, ear instrumentation, contact diode laser, and Skeeter stapes microdrill do open bilateral atretic plate in premies or very low-weight newborns
Unilateral (uncommon) or bilateral choanal atresia (mixed or osseous in type)
Concurrent medical condition that avoid surgery at day 1-2 of age, very low anterior skull base, no consent from parents
0.3 Mm Fiber
Contact Diode Laser
Skeeter microdrill
stapes surgery table, skeeter, cottonoids, small 0 and 30 deg telescopes
HRCT of head, complete workup to exclude CHARGE condition. If confirmed, adequate preop treatment/measures
middle turbinate, anterior skull base, palate, rhinopharynx, sphenopalatine plate, orientation of atretic plate
bleeding, restenosis, lesions to skull base
bleeding, restenosis, lesions to skull base
N/A
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