Surgical repair of choanal atresia
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Keywords
Choanal atresia, endoscopic surgery, nasopharynx
Abstract
Choanal atresia is the most frecuent congenital anomaly of nasal development. It can be unilateral or bilateral, and according to it, it will give symptoms from the moment of the birth, or will remain asymptomatic up to the adult age. In the newborn it demonstrates for an acute respiratory distress and a cyclic cyanosis by feeding, that relieve with crying; and in the adult, the clinic is of unilateral nasal obstruction, with rhinorhea. The treatment is surgical, with several possible surgical approaches. Transnasal endoscopic repair is the most used nowadays, because it's a safe and successful technique, and reestenosis is the most frequent complication. We present the case of a patient with unilateral atresia, that was operated in our hospital, and we describe the technique used.