Symptoms and Otoscopic Signs in Bilateral and Unilateral Acute Otitis Media
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Symptoms and otoscopic signs in bilateral and unilateral acute otitis media.
OBJECTIVE Bilateral acute otitis media (AOM) is considered more severe than unilateral AOM, and several guidelines recommend more active treatment and/or follow-up of bilateral AOM. We studied whether bilateral AOM is a clinically more severe illness than unilateral AOM by comparing symptoms and otoscopic signs between bilateral and unilateral AOM. METHODS Two hundred thirty-two children aged...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-1188