口蓋裂例の耳管機能--文献的考察

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As reported till now, the cleft palate population has a high prevalence of middle ear disease. Tubal dysfunction and contamination of the pharyngeal orifice of the eustachian tube, etc., are believed to be the cause of this high prevalence, but this relationship has not yet been proved.We have surveyed the literature and considered tubal dysfunction in patients with cleft palate. Otitis media with effusion in cleft palate patients improves after the palatoplasty or as the patients grow older, and at the same time tubal function becomes better, too. Therefore, tubal dysfunction is suspected to be the main cause of otitis media with effusion in the cleft palate population. Therefore, it is important to elucidate the mechanism of tubal dysfunction in cleft palate patients not only to treat middle ear diseases in the cleft palate population but also to make clear the clinical role of the eustachian tube in middle ear diseases.
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