Is aspiration necessary before tympanostomy tube insertion?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 443-444

  Egeli, Erol ^a   Kiriş, Muzaffer ^b  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CHILD; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MYRINGOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROUS OTITIS MEDIA; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031905467     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199803000-00024     Document Type: Article

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