Ear Surgery for the Elderly

Endoscopic Middle Ear and Mastoid Surgery for Cholesteatoma

Introduction: To reduce incidence of residual cholesteatoma following ear surgery; and to reduce the need for second look “open” mastoidectomy using endoscopic mastoidotomy. Ten-year retrospective chart review of 249 primary cholesteatoma cases (1994-2004) with a minimum follow-up of two years.  The first objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of otoendoscopy in reducing the incidence of “...

Suction elevator for ear surgery.

An instrument has been designed to combine a suction and an elevator for use in ear surgery.

Plastic Surgery of the Ear

Ear Endoscopic Surgery: Dissection of the Middle Ear

Introduction: The endoscope is an equipment used successfully in several procedures of several medical specialties. However, in the otology area, even with incorporation of endoscopes in joint procedures with microscope, the procedures purely assisted by endoscopy are still very limited. Objective: Our work is aimed at carrying out transcanal and modified transcanal endoscopic dissection of the...

Glue ear surgery.

Black and Hutchings present an intriguing account of the rise and fall of glue ear surgery in two English regions. 1 They speculate that the acceleration of the decline from 1992 may have been due to the Effective Health Care bulletin on glue ear, helped by five " contextual features ". One of these was the concurrent structural change to the NHS arising from the introduction of healthcare comm...