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Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2006;132:597.

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In this issue of the ARCHIVES, Berger et al¹ present a thorough analysis of the histopathologic characteristics of inferior turbinates. The turbinates that they studied were removed from patients with clinically diagnosed nasal obstruction that was unresponsive to medical treatments. They analyzed inferior turbinate connective tissue, glands, and arterial structures but did not study nerve tissue. It is well known that the nervous structures that measure the sensation of nasal airflow are located in the mucosal epithelium.

In 2005, Wrobel and Leopold² measured nasal airway sensitivity and showed that it is present in both the inferior and the middle airflow pathways and that it is much more sensitive anteriorly than posteriorly. Points measured along the inferior turbinate were quite sensitive. Berger and colleagues indicate that the thickening of the inferior turbinate occurs mostly in the submucosal tissues medially and inferiorly. If the mucosa of the medial and inferior . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Donald A. Leopold, MD

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