Uvulotomy

Uvulotomy
Intervention
ICD-9-CM 27.7

A uvulotomy or staphylotomy is any cutting operation performed on the uvula.[1]

The procedure was performed in European medieval medicine. The Norwegian Eiríkr Hákonarson bled to death following such an operation.[2]

Uvulotomy is employed in folk medicine in Tigray.[3]

In the 19th century uvulotomy came to be used as a treatment for snoring.[4] See uvulopalatopharyngoplasty.

Its CPT 2009 code is "42140, Uvulectomy".

References

  1. Biology Online.
  2. Finlay 2004, p. 133.
  3. Ethnomed.
  4. Oommen 1988, p. 18.
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