Long-term clinical, audiologic, and radiologic outcomes in palate cleft children treated with early tympanostomy for otitis media with effusion: A controlled prospective study

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1512-1516

  Valtonen, Hannu ^a,b   Dietz, Aarno ^a   Qvarnberg, Yrjö ^b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Children; Follow up; Otitis media with effusion; Palate cleft; Tympanostomy

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MASTOID; MASTOIDECTOMY; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REVIEW; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; AUDIOMETRY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLEFT PALATE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23344443110     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000172207.59888.a2     Document Type: Review

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