Paediatric chronic suppurative otitis media in the Free State Province:Clinical and audiological features

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 467-470

  Tiedt, N J ^a   Butler, I R T ^a   Hallbauer, U M ^a   Atkins, M D ^a   Elliott, E ^a   Pieters, M ^a   Joubert, G ^a   Seedat, R Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUINOLONE;

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; CHOLESTEATOMA; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYRINGOSCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; OTORRHEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD;

AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84879479447     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.6636     Document Type: Article

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