Otitis media with effusion: A possible role for Helicobacter pylori?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 256-258

  Fancy, Tanya ^a   Mathers, Peter H ^a   Ramadan, Hassan H ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOID; ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; NASOPHARYNX; PEDIATRICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADENOIDS; ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 59249088567     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.11.023     Document Type: Article

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