Effectiveness of Adenoidectomy and Tympanostomy Tubes in the Treatment of Chronic Otitis Media with Effusion
- 3 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 317 (23) , 1444-1451
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198712033172305
Abstract
To study the effectiveness of adenoidectomy and of the placement of tympanostomy tubes in the treatment of chronic otitis media with effusion, we randomly assigned 578 children, aged four through eight years, to receive bilateral myringotomy and no additional treatment (Group 1), placement of tympanostomy tubes (Group 2), adenoidectomy (Group 3), or adenoidectomy and placement of tympanostomy tubes (Group 4). The 491 children who underwent one of these treatments were examined at six-week intervals for up to two years.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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