Conditions that may require ENT surgery
The ENT team performs surgery to diagnose, monitor, and treat with a wide range of conditions affecting the ear, nose, and throat, which include conditions of the larynx, trachea, lips, cleft and palate, salivary glands, tonsils, adenoids, sinuses, thyroid, bronchi, jaw, neck, and esophagus. Some of the most common conditions treated at Children's include:
- Adenoiditis
- Airway obstruction
- Choanal atresia
- Cleft lip and palate
- Congenital deformities
- Deviated septum
- Down dyndrome
- Dysphagia (feeding and swallowing problems)
- Recurrent ear infections
- Esophageal atresia (with or without tracheoesophageal fistula)
- Esophageal spasms
- Head, neck and skull-based tumors
- Jaw Deformities
- Pierre robin sequence
- Sialolithiasis (salivary duct stones)
- Sialadenitis (also known as parotitis)
- Sinusitis
- Tonsillitis
- Tracheal stenosis
