Adenoidectomy for middle ear disorders: a randomized controlled trial.
Repeated tympanometric screening of a regionally defined population of 3-year-old children defined a group of 42 children with middle ear disease which had persisted for at least 6 months. These children were treated by either myringotomy with adenoidectomy or myringotomy without adenoidectomy decided by random allocation. Postoperative observation during 6 months failed to disclose any difference in middle ear status between the two groups.
D000233:Adenoidectomy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D005064:Eustachian Tube; D006801:Humans; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000601:surgery*; D011897:Random Allocation; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000601:surgery*