title: The old-fashioned Politzer maneuver: a video clip demonstration.
abstract: Politzer maneuver causes retrograde inflation of the middle ear by forcing air through the eustachian tube, and it has been proposed by many authors as the main nonsurgical treatment of middle ear effusion. To our knowledge, this is the first case in the literature in which air entering into a middle ear with effusion through a Politzer maneuver has been captured on video (www.laryngoscope.com).
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Interdisciplinary Center for Biomedical Research (CIR), University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy. m.casale@unicampus.it
authors.forename: Manuele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Casale
authors.forename: Vittorio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rinaldi
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Setola
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Salvinelli
mesh_terms: D005064:Eustachian Tube; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008876:Middle Ear Ventilation / Q000379:methods*; D010034:Otitis Media with Effusion / Q000628:therapy*