Has the increasing use of grommets influenced the frequency of surgery for cholesteatoma?
| Autor: | R. Mills, N. D. Padgham, Helen E. Christmas |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
medicine.medical_specialty Middle ear ventilation business.industry Otitis Media with Effusion Population Cholesteatoma General Medicine medicine.disease Middle Ear Ventilation Annual incidence Surgery Otorhinolaryngology Scotland otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans education business Child Ear Diseases |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of laryngology and otology. 103(11) |
| ISSN: | 0022-2151 |
| Popis: | The number of operations for cholesteatoma, together with the number of cases undergoing insertion of ventilation tubes in the Tayside region of Scotland between 1966 and 1986 have been studied. During this period there has been a sixty fold increase in the use of ventilation tubes, but the incidence of cholesteatoma surgery has only varied between 0.94 and 1.88 operations per 10000 of population per year. The mean annual incidence of cholesteatoma during this period was 1.32 cases per 10 000 of population. The results indicate that there has been neither a rise nor a fall in the incidence of cholesteatoma in Tayside despite a considerable increase in the use of ventilation tubes. |
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