The most common middle ear diseases are otitis media with effusion (OME), acute otitis media (AOM) and chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM)). Diagnosing middle ear disease is based mainly on inspection of the tympanic membrane (TM) and indirect measurements of the status of the middle ear. (Tables 1, 2; Figure 1) To improve diagnostic accuracy in general practice the important factors are as...

A nation-wide survey was conducted to estimate the prevalence of otitis media and allied diseases through physical examination by otolaryngologic doctors from July to October, 1991. A sample study population was selected from a panel to be representative of the Korean population by multistage clustered and stratified random sampling method based on the National Census Data, 1990. Total number o...

Inflammation of the middle ear, known clinically as chronic otitis media, presents in different forms, such as chronic otitis media with effusion (COME; glue ear) and chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM). These are highly prevalent diseases, especially in childhood, and lead to significant morbidity worldwide. However, much remains unclear about this disease, including its aetiology, initiat...

BACKGROUND Recently, demand for and supply of short-form patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have risen throughout the world healthcare. Our contribution to meeting that demand has been translating and culturally adapting the Chronic Otitis Media Questionnaire-12 (COMQ-12) for adults into Serbian and enhancing its psychometric base on the relatively large Serbian COM caseload. Chronic oti...

This report presents the results of the clinical observation of 96 children under ten years of age with acute otitis media (107 ears) who visited our out-patient clinic from May 1986 to August 1987. The patients were classified into the following three groups according to clinical course: Group 1: 25 cases (26.0%) in which acute inflammatory findings rapidly disappeared and otitis media was cur...

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Otitis media with effusion (OME), also called glue ear, is characterised by a collection of fluid in the middle-ear cleft. there is chronic inflammation but without signs of acute inflammation. OME is the most common cause of hearing impairment (and the most common reason for elective surgery) in childhood, where it usually follows an episode of acute otitis media (AOM). It is uncommon in adult...

Languages and cultures, like organisms, are constantly evolving. Words, like genes, can come and go-spreading around or going extinct. Here I discuss the spread of one small subset of words that are meant to convey "comprehensiveness" in some way: the "omes" and other words derived from "genome" or "genomics." I focus on a bad aspect of this spread the use of what I refer to as "badomics" words...