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Upper airways pathologies represent extremely common medical problems in children, and from the daily clinical practice clearly emerges that alterations of rhinopharyngeal homeostasis can produce nasal symptoms and otitis media as well. Nose and middle ear are, in fact, not independent entities, but they belong to a system of contiguous organs including the nose, Eustachian tube, palate, rhino- pharynx, middle ear and mastoid cells, the so called rhinopharyngotubal unit The key element of this anatomo-physiological unit is, considering its multiple functions, certainly the Eustachian tube.
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Passàli, D., Damiani, V., Passàli, G.C., Bellussi, L. (2004). Eustachian Tube and Otitis Media. In: Suzuki, JI., Kobayashi, T., Koga, K. (eds) Hearing Impairment. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68397-1_47
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