1. Aoki K, Mitani Y, Tuji T, Hamada Y, Utahashi H, Moriyama H. Relationship between middle ear pressure, mucosal lesion, and mastoid pneumatization. Laryngoscope 108:1840–1845, 1998.
2. Ar A, Marcusohn Y, Sadé J, Kania R, Lecain E, Herman P, Tran Ba Huy P. The middle ear as a ‘small lung’ with a low ventilation-to-perfusion ratio: a quantitative model for its gas exchange, effective blood flow and mucosa thickness in the rat. IXth Oxford conference on modeling and control of breathing. Post-genomic perspectives in modeling and control of breathing, Paris, September 2003.
3. Dejours P. Principles of comparative respiratory physiology, 2nd ed. Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, Amsterdam 1981.
4. Dirckx JJJ, Somers T, Decraemer WF, Govaerts P, Offeciers E. Continuous pressure monitoring in the intact middle ear. In: Magnan J, Chays A (eds) Cholesteatoma and ear surgery, pp 41–47, 2001.
5. Doyle WJ, Alper CM. A model to explain the rapid pressure decrease after air-inflation of diseased middle ears. Laryngoscope 109:70–78, 1999.