clinical features
Last reviewed 01/2018
These patients are often described as "adenoidal".
Features may result from nasal obstruction:
- mouth breathing
- recurrent pharyngeal infection
- recurrent chest infection
- chronic sinusitis
- snoring
- possible sleep apnoea
Features may result from eustachian tube obstruction:
- recurrent acute otitis media
- glue ear
- chronic suppurative otitis media
On examination the adenoids appear enlarged and pale.