title: Tympanometry in children with treated acute otitis media.
abstract: Tympanometry was used to identify middle-ear changes in 154 children with otitis media during and after treatment in general practice. In two hundred and nineteen episodes, 242 infected and 196 non-infected ears were examined. The results suggest that chronic serous otitis media or "glue ear" is not a consequence of acute otitis media; that persistence of middle-ear effusion is unlikely to predispose to recurrent acute otitis media; and that in unilateral otitis media abnormalities are often present in both ears.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Wheeler
mesh_terms: D000158:Acoustic Impedance Tests; D000208:Acute Disease; D000667:Ampicillin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010034:Otitis Media with Effusion / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D012008:Recurrence; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000667:Ampicillin