ADENOIDITIS AND OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION: RECENT PHYSIO-PATHOLOGICAL AND TERAPEUTIC ACQUISITION

作者：Ferlito Salvatore^*; Nane Sebastiano; Grillo Caterina; Maugeri Marisa; Cocuzza Salvatore; Grillo Calogero

来源：Acta Medica Mediterranea, 2011, 27(3): 129-133.

• Otitis media with effusion
• adenoiditis
• therapy

Otitis media with effusion (OME) deserves special attention because of its diffusion, the anatomical and functional abnormalities and the complications which may result.
The literature has been widely supported for a long time the role of hypertrophy and/or adenoid inflammation in the development of OME.
Although several clinical studies have established the effectiveness of adenoidectomy in the treatment of OME, there are discordant opinions about.
The fundamental hypothesis that motivates this study is that the OME in children is demonstration of subacute or chronic inflammation of the upper airway that has its epicenter in the rhinopharynx.
Because of these reasons we effectuated a critical review of issues related to the adenoid inflammation in the pathogenesis of the OME and the indication of adenoidectomy surgery in order to define the relationship between OME and adenoiditis.

• 出版日期2011