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Clinical Trial
. 1986 Dec;100(12):1347-50.
doi: 10.1017/s0022215100101124.

Efficacy of medical treatment as an adjunct to surgery in the treatment of secretory otitis media

T H Lesser, M I Clayton, D Skinner
Clinical Trial

Efficacy of medical treatment as an adjunct to surgery in the treatment of secretory otitis media

T H Lesser et al. J Laryngol Otol. 1986 Dec.

Abstract

In a pilot controlled randomised trial of 38 children who had bilateral secretory otitis media, with effusion demonstrated at operation, we compared the efficacy of a six-week course of an oral decongestant--antihistamine combination and a mucolytic preparation with a control group in preventing the presence of middle-ear effusion six weeks after myringotomy and adenoidectomy. The mucolytic preparation decreased the presence of middle-ear effusion when compared to the decongestant-antihistamine combination and the control group (p = 0.06).

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