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Adenoidectomy
Adenoidectomy is the surgical removal of the adenoid, or pharyngeal tonsil, most often performed in children for ear infections, chronic adenoiditis, and obstructive sleep apnea.
Adenotonsillectomy
Adenotonsillectomy is an operation that completely removes the palatine tonsils together with the adenoids, most often performed in children to relieve sleep-disordered breathing or recurrent throat infection.
Antrostomy
Antrostomy is a surgical opening into the maxillary sinus to restore drainage and ventilation in chronic sinusitis, done endoscopically through the nose and largely replacing the Caldwell-Luc procedure.
Bimaxillary orthognathic surgery
Bimaxillary orthognathic surgery is a jaw operation combining a Le Fort I osteotomy with bilateral sagittal split osteotomies, repositioning both jaws to correct malocclusion and facial imbalance.
Cartilage tympanoplasty
Cartilage tympanoplasty is a surgical technique that repairs a perforated eardrum with a rigid cartilage graft, usually from the tragus, achieving better anatomical outcomes than fascia grafts.
Central lymph node dissection
Central lymph node dissection is an operation that removes the central compartment (level VI) lymph nodes of the neck during thyroid cancer surgery, performed therapeutically for documented nodal metastasis or prophylactically when nodes appear normal.
Charles Horace Mayo
Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939) was an American surgeon who co-founded the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, with his brother William, becoming a leader in thyroid and head-and-neck surgery.
Cleft rhinoplasty
Cleft rhinoplasty is a surgical procedure that corrects the nasal deformities of cleft lip and palate by repositioning displaced cartilage and septum, staged from infancy to after skeletal maturity.
Completion thyroidectomy
Completion thyroidectomy is a second operation removing the remaining thyroid tissue after a partial thyroidectomy, typically when final pathology shows cancer that justifies removing the whole gland.
Cordectomy
Cordectomy is surgery that removes part or all of a vocal cord, used mainly to treat early glottic cancer, usually transorally with a CO2 laser.
Endocrine Surgical Procedures
Endocrine surgical procedures are operations on endocrine glands such as thyroidectomy, parathyroidectomy, and adrenalectomy; the field traces to Kocher and is now guided by ATA, AAES, and ESES standards.
Endolymphatic Shunt
Endolymphatic shunt, also called endolymphatic sac decompression or mastoid shunt, is non-ablative ear surgery for Ménière's disease vertigo, first performed by Georges Portmann in 1926, with 75-95% reported vertigo control.
Endoscopic ear surgery
Endoscopic ear surgery is an otolaryngology technique using a rigid endoscope passed through the ear canal to operate on middle ear structures, replacing the microscope and avoiding external incisions.
Endoscopic sinus surgery
Endoscopic sinus surgery, also known as functional endoscopic sinus surgery, is a minimally invasive operation performed through the nostrils to open blocked sinus drainage pathways, mainly for chronic rhinosinusitis.
Endoscopic thyroidectomy
Endoscopic thyroidectomy is a surgical technique that removes all or part of the thyroid gland using an endoscope and remote incisions, avoiding the open collar scar.
Endoscopic tympanoplasty
Endoscopic tympanoplasty is a surgical technique in otolaryngology that repairs a perforated eardrum using an endoscope instead of a microscope, with comparable outcomes, less pain, and no external incision.
Ethmoidectomy
Ethmoidectomy is a surgical procedure in otolaryngology that removes part or all of the ethmoid air cells, most often for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.
Foreign body in pharynx
Foreign body in pharynx (ICD-10-CM T17.2; ICD-11 ND72.2): an object, food bolus, or mucus lodged in the throat. Fish bones and food boluses are typical; clinical exam and indirect laryngoscopy outperform routine radiography; endoscopy removes most retained bodies.
Frenotomy
Frenotomy is a minor surgical procedure that divides the lingual frenulum, the tissue anchoring the tongue to the mouth's floor, to treat tongue-tie restricting breastfeeding in infants.
Genioplasty
Genioplasty is a surgical procedure that reshapes or repositions the chin by cutting the mandible and moving the freed bone segment, fixing it with plates or screws.
Glossectomy
A glossectomy is surgery that removes all or part of the tongue, performed most often to treat oral cancer and graded as partial, hemi-, subtotal, or total.
Hemimandibulectomy
Hemimandibulectomy is the surgical removal of one half of the mandible, performed mainly for oral cancers that invade the jawbone, and usually requiring reconstruction, often with a free fibula flap.
Hemithyroidectomy
Hemithyroidectomy is an operation removing one lobe of the thyroid gland, usually with the isthmus, leaving the opposite lobe, parathyroids, and recurrent laryngeal nerve intact.
Hypoglossal nerve stimulation
Hypoglossal nerve stimulation is a surgically implanted therapy that moves the tongue forward during sleep to treat obstructive sleep apnea in adults who cannot use CPAP.
Inferior turbinate reduction
Inferior turbinate reduction is a group of surgical procedures that shrink enlarged inferior nasal turbinates to relieve nasal obstruction, ranging from office radiofrequency ablation under local anesthesia to microdebrider turbinoplasty.
Injection laryngoplasty
Injection laryngoplasty is a surgical technique for vocal fold insufficiency, first described in 1911, that injects temporary or long-lasting fillers to treat paralysis, atrophy, and scarring.
Labyrinth Fenestration
Labyrinth fenestration, also called fenestration operation, is a historical ear surgery for otosclerosis that created a new window into the lateral semicircular canal, perfected one-stage by Julius Lempert in 1938 and later replaced by stapedectomy.
Labyrinthectomy
Labyrinthectomy is a surgical procedure that removes the inner ear's balance organs to abolish vestibular function, sacrificing all remaining hearing and reserved for ears with nonserviceable hearing.
Laryngoplasty
Laryngoplasty, also known as medialization laryngoplasty, is head and neck surgery that reshapes the larynx's cartilage, typically placing an implant beside a paralyzed vocal fold to restore voice.
Laryngotracheal reconstruction
Laryngotracheal reconstruction is an open surgical operation that widens a narrowed larynx or trachea, most often in children, by interposing cartilage grafts to treat laryngotracheal stenosis.