BUBBLE REMEDIES IN AURAL SURGERY.

The Operations of Aural Surgery

A Manual of Aural Surgery

There are few departments of medical science in a more unsatisfactory condition at the present time than that of diseases of the ear. As a general rule, patients complaining of deafness are advised to syringe out the ears, and if that does not answer, to apply a blister over the skin behind the affected organ. Much of this mild treatment is due to fact that general practitioners are unacquainte...

Accelerating Virtual Surgery Simulation for Congenital Aural Atresia

In this paper, we proposed a new efficient implementation for simulation of surgery planning for congenital aural atresia. We first applied a 2-level image segmentation schema to classify the inner ear structures. Based on it, several 3D texture volumes were generated and sent to graphical pipeline on a PC platform. By exploiting the texturingmapping capability on the PC graphics/video board, a...

Computer-aided virtual surgery for congenital aural atresia.

HYPOTHESIS Computer-enhanced three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) provides accurate spatial representation of the complex surgical anatomy of congenitally atretic ears, and is superior to conventional CT for surgical planning. BACKGROUND The surgical repair of congenital aural atresia is challenging. Conventional CT, routinely used for surgical planning, is limited in its ability t...

[Bubble mirror technique for express shunt surgery].

SURGICAL TECHNIQUE The bubble mirror technique consists of the stabilization of the anterior chamber by means of a plug made with a combination of conveniently placed air and viscoelastic material. A line arises at interface between the air and viscoelastic where the anterior chamber angle reflected can be seen as in a mirror (bubble mirror). DISCUSSION The viscoelastic-air plug offers three ...