The overlooked importance of tympanic membrane bulging [4]

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 513-

  Hoover, Hunter ^a   Roddey, O F ^b  

^a Charlotte Eye Ear Nose/Throat Ass   (United States)

^b Eastover Pediatrics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARDRUM DISEASE; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LETTER; MYRINGOTOMY; NONHUMAN; OTOSCOPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ACUTE DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARDRUM; NOTE; OTITIS MEDIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHEMA; HUMANS; OTITIS MEDIA; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 17844368639     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-2056     Document Type: Letter

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