Your healthcare provider may perform a nasal endoscopy on you if they need more information on issues like:
1. Nasal blockage
2. Nasal congestion
3. Nosebleeds
4. Nasal polyps
5. Rhinosinusitis (sinus and nasal infection)
6. Nasal tumors
7. Cerebrospinal fluid leak
8. Loss of ability to smell
The doctor may obtain specific details from the endoscopy such as the area of swelling of nasal tissue or bleeding. They may also take a look at a growth which could be cancer.
Sometimes, the physician may use nasal endoscopy as a treatment. They could use it on a child to remove something from their nose, for example.
They may perform an endoscopy to observe a sinus or nose problem treatment to see how it's working - shrinking of nasal polyps, for example.
In other cases, the endoscopy is the first step before a patient undergoes another procedure designed to help with many nasal congestion issues, the Vivaer Nasal Airway Remodeling procedure.
