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Gilead Berger, MD; Svetlana Gass, MSc; Dov Ophir, MD

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We thank Dr Eccles for his interest in our article on the histopathology of the hypertrophic inferior turbinate (IT).¹ Dr Eccles' criticism mainly concerned our decision to use as normal controls ITs removed from patients who had nasal obstruction and relatively narrow nasal passages and who had undergone both septoplasty and IT reduction surgery. It is well known that for ethical reasons IT samples from healthy volunteers are unavailable. Samples from cadavers are also unattainable. Although all the control patients complained of nasal obstruction, none had a history of nasal allergy or had nasal discharge, postnasal drip, a sensation of itching, or sneezing. Apart from having a deviated nasal septum, preoperative anterior rhinoscopy and flexible endoscopy showed that their relatively narrow nasal passages had no effect on the ITs, which appeared normal in size and without apparent hypertrophy. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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