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Edited by Anil K. Lalwani and Kenneth M. Grundfast. 728 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, Lippincott–Raven, 1998. $149. ISBN 0-397-51466-2.

Fields such as pediatrics and internal medicine long ago became comfortably distinct from each other on the basis of both the age of the patient treated and the uniqueness of diseases suffered by the respective populations. The field of otology, in contrast, has approached these distinctions ambivalently. This textbook is proof that information about disorders of the ear in children is worthy of compilation.

Historically, much of otology did focus on children. Before the availability of antibiotics, acute mastoiditis was an extremely common disease. It accounted for approximately one third of all hospital admissions on a children's ward. Children underwent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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