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1Department of Otolaryngology, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, UK.
Abstract:
One hundred and ninety-one children who presented to the author's clinic with otitis media with effusion (OME) over a 2-year period (1986-1988) have been studied prospectively. Resolution of their OME was considered to have occurred when they had normal findings on pneumatic otoscopy, tympanometry and audiometry on at least two occasions 6 months apart and had subjectively normal hearing in between. The number of operations performed during the course of the disease was used as a surrogate for chronicity. Children with a history of previous aural discharge at presentation were significantly more likely to have chronic OME (P = < 0.02).
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