Does auditory tube angle really affect childhood otitis media and size of the mastoid?

Habesoglu T. E., Habesoglu M., Bolukbasi S., Naiboglu B., Eriman M., Karaman M., ...More

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY, vol.73, no.5, pp.747-749, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 73 Issue: 5
  • Publication Date: 2009
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2009.01.018
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.747-749
  • Keywords: Auditory tube angle, Mastoid size, Otitis, TEMPORAL BONE PNEUMATIZATION, EUSTACHIAN-TUBE, CHILDREN, ANATOMY, RECONSTRUCTION, CHOLESTEATOMA, SYSTEM
  • Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Objective: To assess the cross-sectional area of mastoid air cells and auditory tube angles (ATA), which were defined as the angles between the longitudinal line bisecting the transverse length of the external auditory canal and the longitudinal axis of the auditory tube (AT), both in healthy ears and diseased ears in patients with unilateral chronic otitis media (COM).