Serous Otitis: A Conservative Approach to Treatment

Adenoid hypertrophy and nasal mucociliary clearance in children. A morphological and functional study

“…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. The aim of the present paper is to stress the significant postoperative enhancement of the mucociliary transport and the significant reduction of the nasal resistances.…”

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.…”

Tympanic Effusions in Children – Some Parameters Involved

“…Accordingly, there is no unanimity concerning treatment. Adenoidectomy (Graltne, 1964;Banham, 1968;Benett and Chakraborty, 1969;MacKinnon, 1971;Gottschalk, 1972), anti-allergic treatment ( Whitcomb, 1965), myring- ' I thank Miss A.M.A. Majoor and Miss M. W.M. Majoor for the extensive administrative part of the work.…”