The association of a conspicuous nasal septal deviation with otomicroscopic, audiometric, and impedance findings was studied in 687 school children, aged 6–15 years. Changes in color and structure of pars tensa and the retraction of pars flaccida were indirectly associated with clinically significant septal deviation as a result of an increased incidence of upper respiratory tract infections, but no association was found between hearing loss and pathological impedance findings and clinically significant septal deviation.
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