Secretory Otitis Media

Mucociliary function and nasal resistance evaluation before and after adenoidectomy

“…While some authors believe adenoidectomy to be effective in the treatment of OME [1,2,5,20,[24][25][26][30][31][32]35,37,38,53], some others, instead, suggest that adenoidectomy yields unpredictable results [4], or is uneffective on OME patients [19,25,39,46,47]. Many variables seem to interfere with an accurate evaluation of the real effectiveness of adenoidectomy on OME, and they include age [26,30,51], sex [6,13,16,17], nasal obstruction [3,47,49], eustachian tube function [3,4,39] and, mainly, the high rate of spontaneous recovery of OME, especially in warmer seasons [18,52,54,551.…”

Some Triumphs and Some Problems of Middle Ear Surgery

“…It is not new. Bateman (1957), in an excellent paper given before this Section, mentions that it was described by James Hilton in 1874. As a student I was taught about the hair line indicating a fluid level, but we did not recognize the ear in which the tympanum was completely filled.…”

Secretory Otitis Media

“…Although secretory otitis is mentioned in current -textbooks of otology, there is nothing to suggest that it occurs in children to the extent found here. Even after a search of the literature, in this country only papers by Bateman (1957), Colman (1958) and Stevens (1958) were found.…”