Effects of ciprofloxacin-dexamethasone on myringotomy wound healing

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 522-528

  Hebda, Patricia A ^a,b,c   Yuksel, Sancak ^b,d   Dohar, Joseph E ^a,b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d Sisli Etfal Research and Educational Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ciprofloxacin; Dexamethasone; Eustachian tube; Myringotomy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BALANCED SALT SOLUTION; CIPRODEX; CIPROFLOXACIN PLUS DEXAMETHASONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; EAR SURGERY; EARDRUM; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MYRINGOTOMY; NONHUMAN; OTORRHEA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MYRINGOPLASTY; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33947115532     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31802f3c86     Document Type: Article

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