A model to explain the rapid pressure decrease after air-inflation of diseased middle ears

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 70-78

  Doyle, William J ^a,b   Alper, Cuneyt M ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GAS EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; EAR, MIDDLE; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PARTIAL PRESSURE;

EID: 0032951178     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199901000-00015     Document Type: Article

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