Nasal polypectomy and sinus surgery for cystic fibrosis--a 10 year review.

Patients with cystic fibrosis are likely to develop nasal polyps and pansinusitis. 
This presentation concerns the results of various surgical procedures used to 
treat nasal polyposis in cystic fibrosis. At present recurrent nasal polyposis 
is still the major problem following surgery. The literature does not 
deal specifically with comparisons of different surgical procedures aimed at controlling 
nasal obstruction or with the surgical management of sinus disease in 
cystic fibrosis patients. Perhaps this lack reflects the unsatisfactory results that 
would have to be reported, since a high recurrence rate is 
expected. Also the prolonged survival in these children means that more 
of them are reaching adolescence and adulthood with an increasing risk 
for nasal obstruction and nasal polyposis. 