Exudative Otitis Media in Children

Deviated Nasal Septum III—Its Influence on the Physiology and Disease of the Nose and Ear

“…In the child with its normal small narrow nose there is usually bilateral fluid, but the older children are, the more liable is the condition to become unilateral, until in the adult it is characteristically unilateral. Kersley and Wickham (1966) found that 6o, or 30 per cent., of 200 cases were unilateral, and in a similar series here of 210 cases 73, or 35 per cent., were unilateral. These unilateral cases usually have obvious septal deviations.…”

Virus Studies in Secretory Otitis Media

“…It has been a general view that the eustachian tube is in some way at fault in this condition (Kersley and Wickham, 1966). It either prevented entry of air into the middle ear, thus causing a vacuum, or it failed to facilitate the escape of exudate from the ear.…”