TY - JOUR
T1 - The old-fashioned Politzer maneuver
T2 - A video clip demonstration
AU - Casale, Manuele
AU - Rinaldi, Vittorio
AU - Setola, Roberto
AU - Salvinelli, Fabrizio
PY - 2007/11
Y1 - 2007/11
N2 - Politzer maneuver causes retrograde inflation of the middle ear by forcing air through the eustachian tube, and it has been proposed by many authors as the main nonsurgical treatment of middle ear effusion. To our knowledge, this is the first case in the literature in which air entering into a middle ear with effusion through a Politzer maneuver has been captured on video (www.laryngoscope.com).
AB - Politzer maneuver causes retrograde inflation of the middle ear by forcing air through the eustachian tube, and it has been proposed by many authors as the main nonsurgical treatment of middle ear effusion. To our knowledge, this is the first case in the literature in which air entering into a middle ear with effusion through a Politzer maneuver has been captured on video (www.laryngoscope.com).
KW - Eustachian tube dysfunction
KW - Middle ear with effusion
KW - Politzer maneuver
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U2 - 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31812eeded
DO - 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31812eeded
M3 - Article
C2 - 17828049
AN - SCOPUS:35848945068
VL - 117
SP - 2002
JO - Laryngoscope
JF - Laryngoscope
SN - 0023-852X
IS - 11
ER -