This protocol applies to patients with adenoid hypertrophy in the setting of chronic serous/mucous otitis media — a combination that places middle ear drainage and adenoid burden in the same clinical picture and typically calls for surgical intervention addressing both.
The approach centres on a surgical procedure targeting the adenoids. The full structured regimen — including which ear-directed procedures may accompany it and under what indications — is available in the complete protocol.
DOI: 10.1007/s00106-023-01299-6
Patients with chronic serous/mucous otitis media often undergo adenoidectomy together with myringotomy and/or the insertion of tubes (see S2k Guideline No. 017-004 on Chronic Serous/Mucous Otitis Media).
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