A review of retraction pockets: Past, present and future management

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 521-525

  Ramakrishnan, Y ^a,b   Kotecha, A ^a   Bowdler, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Laser Surgery; Otologic Surgical Procedures; Retraction Pockets, Eustachian Tube; Tympanic Membrane

Indexed keywords

ANTIALLERGIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; PEPSIN A; PEPSINOGEN; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ATELECTASIS; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; CHOLESTEATOMA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; EAR INFECTION; HEARING LOSS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MASTOIDECTOMY; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; OTALGIA; OTITIS MEDIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REINFECTION; RETRACTION POCKET; REVIEW; STENT; TYMPANOMETRY; TYMPANOPLASTY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLESTEATOMA, MIDDLE EAR; EAR DISEASES; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 34249000030     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: 17485460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022215106003550     Document Type: Review

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