Long-term ventilation tubes: Results of 726 insertions

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 378-383

  Van Heerbeek, N ^a   De Saar, G M A C ^b   Mulder, J J S ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b St Vincentiushospital ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Complication; Goode tube; Long term ventilation tube; Otorrhoea; Perforation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BLEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OTORRHEA; PAIN; PERFORATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SURVIVAL; TUBE; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036408860     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.2002.00599.x     Document Type: Article

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