Otoscopic and tympanometric findings in acute otitis media yielding dry tap at tympanocentesis

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1030-1034

  Saeed, Kokab ^a   Coglianese, Carol Lynn ^a   McCormick, David P ^a   Chonmaitree, Tasnee ^a  

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

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; Acute otitis media without effusion; Pneumatic otoscopy; Tympanocentesis; Tympanometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYRINGOTOMY; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOSCOPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TYMPANOMETRY; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EARDRUM; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA;

CEFTRIAXONE; HISTAMINE H1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PREDNISOLONE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACUTE DISEASE; CEFTRIAXONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HISTAMINE H1 ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; OTOSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREDNISOLONE; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 16544377222     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000143653.69275.4d     Document Type: Article

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