[Auditory tube dysfunction in children (literature review, part 1)]
A Yu Ivoylov1, E V Garov2, I V Bodrova3
1Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology of the Moscow Healthcare Department, Moscow, Russia, 117152; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Department of Otolaryngology of Pediatric Faculty, Moscow, Russia, 117997; Speransky Pediatric Municipal Clinical Hospital No. 9 of the Moscow Healthcare Department, Moscow, Russia, 123317.
Abstract:
We present the review of the literature on the anatomical and physiological features of the structure of the auditory tube in children, epidemiology, etiology, and the pathogenesis of the formation of auditory tube dysfunction is presented. The first part of the article presents in more detail the structural and functional differences in the Eustachian tube in children, the classification and mechanism of the occurrence of the auditory tube dysfunction in pediatric practice.
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