CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON STAPES SURGERY

Taste disturbance after stapes surgery--clinical and experimental study.

CONCLUSION Most of the clinical cases experienced taste disturbance after stapes surgery, and in a few cases this disturbance persisted for a long time. The animal experiment suggested the role of geniculate ganglion (GG) cells in nerve generation. OBJECTIVES To clinically examine taste disorder and its recovery after stapes surgery and experimentally demonstrate a role of GG. PATIENTS AND ...

Experimental and clinical aspects of otosclerosis and stapes surgery DOCTORAL (Ph.D.) THESIS

Stapes surgery in residency: the UFPR clinical hospital experience.

UNLABELLED Surgery of the stapedius remains the established treatment for otosclerosis. Recent publications have showed that success in surgeries done by residents have decreased and hearing results are worse than those obtained by experienced otologic surgeons. AIM To evaluate the experience of the otorhinolaryngology unit, Parana University, relative to stapes surgery done in the residency ...

Stapes surgery in residency - the ufpr clinical hospital experience Summary

Stapes surgery under local anaesthesia

In the UK, stapes surgery is performed almost universally under general anaesthesia. In 1984 there was consensus that local anaesthesia should be the technique of choice in stapes surgery. Despite reports of successful use of local anaesthesia for middle ear surgery, this is still not widely accepted practice in the UK. We describe the senior author's technique for local anaesthetic stapes sur...