Evaluation of Radiofrequency Thermal Ablation Results in Inferior Turbinate Hypertrophies by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Abstract

These results suggest that thermal ablation with radiofrequency energy is an easily applied, efficient, and reliable technique in treatment of the inferior turbinate hypertrophy, and that anterior-posterior length measurement in the axial section of the inferior turbinate by MRI, which is thought as an objective evaluation method, could be an efficient diagnostic tool in detecting the efficiency of radiofrequency on inferior turbinate.