Comparative study and evaluation of tonsillectomy operation by dissection and by diathermy knife

ABSTRACT

Sixty patients were selected to benefit from tonsillectomy. Thirty of them were operated upon by the dissection method and the other thirty patients by diathermy. It was found that diathermy is preferred in decreasing the operation time and the intraoperative blood loss, but the reactionary hemorrhage is more prevalent, secondary hemorrhage is equal in both methods, trauma to mucosa and pillars in case of diathermy occurred only in the initial cases, which means that training decrease the percentage of trauma