Systematic review of the limited evidence base for treatments of Eustachian tube dysfunction: A health technology assessment

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 6-21

  Norman, G ^a   Llewellyn, A ^a   Harden, M ^a   Coatesworth, A ^b   Kimberling, D ^c   Schilder, A ^d   Mcdaid, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Gastroenterology   (United Kingdom)

^c Gale Farm Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; EPHEDRINE; PLACEBO; STEROID;

AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; BALLOON DILATATION; COUGHING; DRUG SAFETY; EAR ADHESION; EAR BLEEDING; EAR DISCOMFORT; EAR GRANULOMA; EAR LACERATION; EAR SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LASER COAGULATION; LASER SURGERY; LASER TUBOPLASTY; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MYRINGOTOMY; NOSE SEPTUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADICULOPATHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SALPINGOPLASTY; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY EFFECT; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; EAR DISEASES; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL;

EID: 84896828337     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coa.12220     Document Type: Review

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