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Ronald Eccles, PhD

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In the June 2006 issue of the Archives, Berger et al¹ discuss the histopathologic changes associated with hypertrophy of the inferior turbinate and compare the findings of histologic evaluation in 17 patients with refractory inferior turbinate hypertrophy with those in 12 subjects with normal inferior turbinates. This is an interesting area for research as there is little information on the topic in the literature apart from some articles by this research group. When I first read the abstract, I was concerned that there could be an ethical problem in removing the inferior turbinate from normal volunteers, but as I read the main text my concern was about the validity of the study. The authors claim that the turbinate tissue in the control group was normal, yet in the "Methods" section they describe the control group as patients with anatomically narrow nasal passages who underwent septoplasy and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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