title: [Patients with chronic otitis media at the age below 16-year-old from data collected at Department of Otolaryngology Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University between 2004-2006].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Otitis media is a frequent disease in childhood. Infections of ear in children depend on differences in anatomical structure. Clinical picture of otitis media is similar in all age groups.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We performed prospective analysis of patients at the age below 16-year-old treated surgically because of chronic otitis media between 2004-2006.
  
  
  METHODS
  250 operations of ear were performed in that period of time. We operated 28 patients below 16 year-old: 26 with chronic otitis media and 2 with otosclerosis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The therapy gave positive results. In 3 cases destruction of bone of skull base was noticed. Delaminations were closed during ear operation successfully.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In children with chronic otitis media we use the same surgical procedures as in adults. We tend to make closed tympanoplasties in children. We should keep in mind possibility of asymptomatic lack of skull base bone as a consequence of chronic otitis media.
authors.affiliation: Katedra i Klinika Otolaryngologii, Collegium Medicum, Uniwersytet Jagiellorhski w Krakowie. mwiatr@mp.pl
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wiatr
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Składzień
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tomik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D018424:Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear / Q000601:surgery*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004429:Ear Ossicles / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010034:Otitis Media with Effusion / Q000601:surgery*; D010040:Otosclerosis / Q000601:surgery*; D011044:Poland; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data