John is a 6-year-old boy with chronic serous otitis media. Treatment for his condition would be ________
A) surgery to insert tubes
B) surgery on the external ear
C) mastoidectomy
D) cheiloplasty
A
Explanation: A) Correct! His surgery would involve making an incision into the eardrum with tube insertion for fluid drainage.
B) Otoplasty is plastic surgery on the external ear, which would not treat otitis media.
C) Mastoidectomy, with removal of an infected mastoid bone, would only be done if the serous otitis media had spread to that bone.
D) Cheiloplasty is plastic surgery on the lip, not on the ear.
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