Challenges in management of chronic suppurative otitis media in a developing country

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-20

  Akinpelu, O V ^a   Amusa, Y B ^a   Komolafe, E O ^a   Adeolu, A A ^a   Oladele, A O ^a   Ameye, S A ^a  

^a OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media; Complications; Developing Country; Late Presentation; Management

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; CHOLESTEATOMA; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; MYRINGOPLASTY; NIGERIA; OTORRHEA; OTOSCOPY; PREVALENCE; SEPSIS; SEX RATIO; ABSCESS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; INFANT; MASTOIDITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASTOIDITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 40349111203     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: 17485460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022215107008377     Document Type: Article

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