[Validation of therapeutical policy choice in exudative otitis media]. / Obosnovanie vybora taktiki lecheniia ékssudativnogo srednego ukha.

132 patients with diagnosis acute or subacute exudative otitis media were treated conservatively (n = 79) or surgically (n = 53). Conservative treatment was effective in 41% of the cases, surgical treatment produced positive results in 62.3%. The operative treatment combined elements of endoscopic nasal surgery and methods used in tympanoplasty, plastic treatment of the auditory tube, surgery of the internal ear.