[Further investigation into the recurrent causes of post-vidian neurectomy and the feasibility of treating vasomotor rhinitis by surgery].

The authors had found that there were parasympathetic nerve fibres in the anterior ethmoid nerve and also cholinergic microganglia were present in the inferior turbinate of humans by the histochemical method of acetylcholinesterase (AChE). These structures had an important role in the pathogenesis of vasomotor rhinitis and also might be used to explain the recurrence of patients who had undergone vidian neurectomy. The authors put forward a new suggestion in the treatment of vasomotor rhinitis by a combination of vidian neurectomy, anterior ethmoid neurectomy and inferior turbinectomy. But the surgical method would be the last selection in the treatment of vasomotor rhinitis.