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Query: UMLS:C0002736 (
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
)
19,048
document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Serous otitis media
(
SOM
) is a common disease, the cause of which is not always clear. In this paper authors report the high incidence of
SOM
among the patients with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(
ALS
). Furthermore, a comparative study about
ALS
and other diseases shows higher incidence of
SOM
in
ALS
. Our study indicates that
SOM
in
ALS
seems to be mainly due to muscular disturbance of eustachian tube caused by
ALS
, although the influence of long term supine position and nasopharyngeal irritation by nasogastric feeding tube cannot be denied in the development of
SOM
.
...
PMID:Serous otitis media in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 313 33
