Search results
The initial search retrieved 277 publications. After reading all titles and abstracts, 41 studies were selected for full text review. A total of 20 studies met the inclusion criteria.6 authors were contacted twice with the aim of obtaining missing data; 1 of them responded.Of the papers selected for full-text reading, 21 publications were excluded for the following reasons: four did not perform coblation adenoidectomy; two presented mixed techniques without subgroup analysis; two had a too small sample size; three due to study design; three did not report any measurable variable attributed to adenoidectomy; three performed simultaneous tonsillectomy without analyzing variables attributed to adenoidectomy; two mixed adult patients and children; one due to language; one was a duplicated study. References in supplementary file 1.