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Twenty-seven respondents did not perform adenoidectomy, while 332 did. A total of 312\/332 respondents (94 per cent) believed that adenoidectomy had a role in the treatment of chronic serous otitis media. The majority of respondents (232\/332; 69.9 per cent) reported examining the postnasal space digitally at adenoidectomy. The preferred routine adenoidectomy technique was blind curettage for 263 respondents (79.2 per cent), suction diathermy ablation for 27 (8.1 per cent) and curettage under direct vision (using a mirror) for 13 (3.9 per cent). In response to the question \u2018Do you recognise the need for revision adenoidectomy as a problem?\u2019, 205 (61.7 per cent) respondents replied \u2018never\u2019, 39 (11.7 per cent) \u2018rarely\u2019, 54 (16.3 per cent) \u2018&lt;\u00a02 per cent\u2019 and 36 (10.8 per cent) \u2018&gt;2 per cent\u2019.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0022215109991502_sec6\"><jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The most commonly used adenoidectomy technique in the UK is digital palpation followed by blind curettage, according to this postal questionnaire survey. 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