Effectiveness and safety of Chinese herbal medicine for pediatric adenoid hypertrophy: A meta-analysis
Sun YL, Zheng HT, Tao JL, Jiang MC, Hu CC, Li XM, Yuan B · International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology · 2019 April
DOI 10.1016/j.ijporl.2019.01.022
Objective
To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of Chinese herbal medicine in the treatment of pediatric adenoid hypertrophy.
Conclusions
Chinese herbal medicine has good clinical efficacy and safety on pediatric adenoid hypertrophy, which need to be confirmed by high quality, multiple-centre, large sample randomized controlled trials.
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