Short-term tympanostomy in conjunction with hyperbaric oxygen therapy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1124-1128

  Vrabec, Jeffrey T ^a   Clements, Kelly S ^a   Mader, Jon T ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotrauma; complications; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; laser; tympanostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAROTRAUMA; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OTALGIA; OTORRHEA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARACHE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; LASER SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0031828455     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199808000-00004     Document Type: Article

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