EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGY, cilt.276, sa.5, ss.1321-1325, 2019 (SCI-Expanded)
Objective Chronic otitis media (COM) is an important debilitating public problem causing hearing loss due to irreversible resorption of the ossicular chain. Activation of osteoprotegerin (OPG) during an acute attack of COM prevents bone resorption. The aim of the study was to investigate the role of OPG gene expression level on ossicular chain resorption in chronic otitis media.