Loss of Unilateral Lacrimation Following Adenoidectomy

Complications following an adenoidectomy are rare. A 13-month-old female developed unilateral lacrimation impairment following an adenoidectomy and bilateral ventilation tube insertion. The patient’s post-operative course was marked by a fever, rhinorrhea, and dehydration. We suspect the impairment...

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Autores principales: Mustafa, Ayman A, Carr, Michele M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Otolaryngology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7440260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32839681
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9312
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description Complications following an adenoidectomy are rare. A 13-month-old female developed unilateral lacrimation impairment following an adenoidectomy and bilateral ventilation tube insertion. The patient’s post-operative course was marked by a fever, rhinorrhea, and dehydration. We suspect the impairment to be secondary to injury by suction cautery or post-operative inflammatory response and infection. Over the first nine months after surgery, the impairment spontaneously remitted.
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spelling pubmed-74402602020-08-23 Loss of Unilateral Lacrimation Following Adenoidectomy Mustafa, Ayman A Carr, Michele M Cureus Otolaryngology Complications following an adenoidectomy are rare. A 13-month-old female developed unilateral lacrimation impairment following an adenoidectomy and bilateral ventilation tube insertion. The patient’s post-operative course was marked by a fever, rhinorrhea, and dehydration. We suspect the impairment to be secondary to injury by suction cautery or post-operative inflammatory response and infection. Over the first nine months after surgery, the impairment spontaneously remitted. Cureus 2020-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7440260/ /pubmed/32839681 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9312 Text en Copyright © 2020, Mustafa et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Loss of Unilateral Lacrimation Following Adenoidectomy
title_fullStr Loss of Unilateral Lacrimation Following Adenoidectomy
title_full_unstemmed Loss of Unilateral Lacrimation Following Adenoidectomy
title_short Loss of Unilateral Lacrimation Following Adenoidectomy
title_sort loss of unilateral lacrimation following adenoidectomy
topic Otolaryngology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7440260/
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