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Abstract
Tonsillectomy is one of the most common paediatric surgical procedures performed worldwide. Although it is one of the most widely performed procedures in otorhinolaryngology, none of the commonly used techniques for tonsillectomy is considered optimal till now.
This meta-analysis aimed to compare coblation and surgical dissection approaches for tonsillectomy in terms of operative time, surgical blood loss, postoperative pain and the incidence of postoperative complications.
A systematic review and meta-analysis in accordance to the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement and Meta-analysis Of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (MOOSE) statement. Guidelines and an electronic search of information was conducted to identify studies that compare between coblation and cold dissection.
This study showed that coblation tonsillectomy was the lowest risk of primary bleeding followed by cold dissection tonsillectomy but with insignificant difference.
Coblation technique was the highest secondary bleeding risk followed by cold dissection.
Coblation tonsillectomy was the best technique regarding blood loss and operative time with significant difference in the comparison with cold dissection.
Because of using different postoperative pain measures in the studies we could not pool its data, but the majority of studies showed that coblation technique was better as regard postoperative pain than cold dissection.