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The aim of our study was to investigate the efficiacy of the suturation technique after completing the tonsillectomy procedure for posttonsillectomy pain control in adult patients. August 2010–February 2011, 44 adult patients, ages ranged from 16 to 41 years old who underwent tonsillectomy at Elaziğ Training and Research Hospital Otorhinolaryngology Clinic were included to the study. After tonsillectomy procedure, anterior and posterior tonsillar archs were sutured each other and so, the area of tonsillectomy lodges which covered with mucosa were increased. Twenty two patients who applied posttonsillectomy suturation were used as study group and remnant 22 patients who did not applied posttonsillectomy suturation were used as control group. The visual analogue score (VAS) was used to evaluate the postoperative pain degree (0 no pain, 10 worst pain). ANOVA test (two ways classification with repeated measures) was used for statistical analysis of VAS values. P < 0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. The effect of time (each post-operative day) on VAS values was significant. The mean VAS values between study and control group on post-operative day 1st, 3rd, 7th, and 10th were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The severity of posttonsillectomy pain was less in study group patients than control group patients. The suturation of anterior and posterior tonsillar archs after tonsillectomy procedure was found effective to alleviate the posttonsillectomy pain in adult patients.
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The authors thank to Sadullah Sakallioğlu, Prof (Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey, Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Department of Practical Statistics) for statistical advise.
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Sakallioğlu, Ö., Düzer, S. & Kapusuz, Z. The Efficiacy of Anterior and Posterior Archs Suturation at Inferior Tonsillar Pole for Posttonsillectomy Pain Control. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 66 (Suppl 1), 115–119 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-011-0357-9
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