Chronic suppurative otitis media: A review

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-12

  Verhoeff, Monique ^a   Van Der Veen, Erwin L ^a   Rovers, Maroeska M ^a,b   Sanders, Elisabeth A M ^a   Schilder, Anne G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM); Clinical management; Pathogenesis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ACETATE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; AZTREONAM; BORIC ACID; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EAR DROPS; IODINE; MEZCLOCILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUDITORY REHABILITATION; AUDITORY TUBE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; CHRONICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG EFFICACY; EARDRUM PERFORATION; EDEMA; ENCEPHALITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INNER EAR DISEASE; LABYRINTHITIS; LATERAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; MASTOIDECTOMY; MASTOIDITIS; MEDLINE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MIDDLE EAR SURGERY; MULTIFACTORIAL GENETIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OTORRHEA; OTOTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STEROID THERAPY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOMASTOIDECTOMY; TYMPANOPLASTY;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 29244491149     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2005.08.021     Document Type: Review

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