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 Vol. 17 No. 4, April 2007
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AAP Grand Rounds 17:37-38 (2007)
© 2007 American Academy of Pediatrics

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PE Tubes May Not Make a Difference

Source: Paradise JL, Feldman HM, Campbell TF, et al. Tympanostomy tubes and developmental outcomes at 9 to 11 years of age. N Engl J Med. 2007;356;3:248–261; doi:10.1056/NEJ-Moa062980

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Decades of reports in the pediatric literature on the possible association of middle ear effusion and delays in cognitive and psychosocial behavioral development1,2 produced official recommendations advocating prompt drainage of middle ear effusion.3,4 This study, carried out by investigators at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford, and the University of Texas, Dallas, is an update of prior studies and was designed to evaluate whether prompt placement of tympanostomy tubes in young childen with middle ear effusion resulted in differences in literacy, attention, social skills, and academic achievement as compared with children undergoing delayed tympanostomy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Donald Schiff, MD, FAAP1 and Leslie L. Barton, MD, FAAP2
1 University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children’s Hospital, Denver, CO
2 Pediatrics, University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tucson, AZ

 





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