PEDIATRICS Vol. 65 No. 6 June 1980, pp. 1198-1199
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Grommets Don't Work

A. Mervyn Fox 1

1 Department of Pediatrics, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

I would like to draw to the attention of readers of the paper by Donaldson ("Surgical Management Eustachian Tube Dysfunction and its Importance in Middle Ear Effusion," Pediatrics 61:6774-6777, 1978) a recent report by Brown et al (Brown MJKM, Richards SH, Ambegaokar AG: "Grommets and Glue Ear—A Five-Year Followup of a Controlled Trial," J R Soc Med 71:353-356, 1978) in which the results of management of seromucinous otitis media were studied in 60 matched pairs of ears by drainage in one ear and conservative management in the other.