It is not unusual for several children operated for severe adenoid hyperthrophy causing breathing problems to have otitis media with effusion simultaneously. It is unknown whether adenoidectomy, myringotomy and tubes insertion is superior to adenoidectomy and myringotomy alone in terms of otitis media related quality of life and recurrence of otitis media several months after the operation. For this purpose a randomized trial is conducted including children operated for adenoid hyperthrophy and whose otitis media with effusion had caused minimal or no symptoms so far
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
52
adenoidectomy, myringotomy and tubes insertion (A-T)against adenoidectomy and myringotomy alone (A-M)
adenoidectomy and myringotomy alone
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital of Athens
Athens, Greece
OM-6
Time frame: one year post operative
tympanogram type B
Time frame: one year
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