effectiveness of adenoidectomy on tympanostomy tubes retention duration

Effectiveness of adenoidectomy on tympanostomy tubes retention duration

 Abstract Background: The children with middle ear effusion need repeated re-tympanostomies. Adenoidectomy is an effective surgical intervention in the management of chronic otitis media with effusion in conjunction with in-sertion of tympanostomy tubes (TTs). To find out whether TTs in different positions decrease the rate of re-tympanostomies study was done. Methods: The present study retrosp...

Tympanostomy Tubes

The role of adjuvant adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy in the outcome of the insertion of tympanostomy tubes.

BACKGROUND Otitis media is the most common medical problem in young children. The usual surgical treatment is myringotomy with insertion of tympanostomy tubes. There is debate about the usefulness of concomitant adenoidectomy or adenotonsillectomy. We examined the effects of these adjuvant procedures on the rates of reinsertion of tympanostomy tubes and rehospitalization for conditions related ...

Effectiveness of Tympanostomy Tubes for Otitis Media: A Meta-analysis.

CONTEXT Tympanostomy tube placement is the most common ambulatory surgery performed on children in the United States. OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to synthesize evidence for the effectiveness of tympanostomy tubes in children with chronic otitis media with effusion and recurrent acute otitis media. DATA SOURCES Searches were conducted in Medline, the Cochrane Central Trials Registr...

a study on the effectiveness of task types (noticing-reformulation) on iranian low intermediate efl learners’ retention of collocations

چکیده پژوهش شبه تجربی حاضر به بررسی بکارگیری تمارین کلاسی که برانگیزنده آگاهی و توجه آگاهانه به همایندها بعنوان بخشی از یک دوره ی مکالمه زبان خارجی در یکی از آموزشگاه های زبان انگلیسی ایران است می پردازد.

[Tympanostomy tubes and water].

OBJECTIVE An in vitro study was conducted to set the necessary pressure in fluids that could break resistance and cross the opening of a tympanostomy tube. METHODS A water column model was created and graduated in centimeters from base to top. We adapted three sorts of tympanostomy tubes. In each model, fluids were tested (tap water, seawater, river water, soapy water and eardrops). The colum...