RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cauterization of inferior nasal turbinate for idiopathic headache
JF Saudi Medical Journal
JO Saudi Med J
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 52
OP 54
VO 24
IS 1
A1 Qasim A. Khader
A1 Khader J. Abdul-Baqi
A1 Abbas H. Mansour
A1 Faisal I. Mohammed
YR 2003
UL http://smj.org.sa/content/24/1/52.abstract
AB OBJECTIVE: Idiopathic headache is a stressful complaint, whose treatment is not well established. Our study is an attempt to examine the relationship between idiopathic headache and inferior turbinate cauterization as a surgical treatment, and to explain the central physiological effect of cauterization.METHODS: Thirty-four patients, 15 females and 19 males complaining of idiopathic headache were treated by inferior turbinate cauterization. Cauterization of the inferior-medial aspect of the turbinate was carried out once under local anesthesia for few seconds. This study was performed between November 1993 and December 1996, a joint project of the Zarka Government Hospital, Zarka and Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.RESULTS: More than 82% of the patients showed significant improvement in the sense of decreased headache.CONCLUSION: Cautery of the nasal turbinate could be a novel method for treatment of idiopathic headache.