Myringotomy versus ventilation tubes in secretory otitis media: Eardrum pathology, hearing, and eustachian tube function 25 years after treatment

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 649-657

  Caye Thomasen, Per ^a   Stangerup, Sven Eric ^a   Jorgensen, Gita ^a   Drozdziewic, Dominika ^a   Bonding, Per ^a   Tos, Mirko ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Long term sequelae; Otitis media with effusion; Tympanostomy tube; Tympanotomy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; ATROPHY; AUDITORY TUBE; CHILD; CHOLESTEATOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EAR DISEASE; EARDRUM PERFORATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYRINGOSCLEROSIS; MYRINGOTOMY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLEROSIS; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TYMPANOMETRY; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; ADULT; EARDRUM; FOLLOW UP; HEARING DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 58149374942     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318173035b     Document Type: Article

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