The Fenestration Operation for Otosclerosis

The fenestration operation for otosclerosis.

Treatment of otosclerosis by staped-ectomy.

The surgical treatment of otosclerosis has changed since the open one-stage fenestration was introduced by Lempert (1938). The principal disadvantages of the operation were the creation of a mastoid cavity resulting in chronic otorrhoea in 13% of cases (Hall, 1958), occasionally troublesome post-operative vertigo, and closure of the fenestra in the lateral semicircular canal within the first fe...

Otosclerosis and Its Treatment

OTOSCLEROSIS is a disease process which arises in the otic capsule in which the normal bone is replaced by new spongy bone. This process begins most commonly just anterior to the oval window fossa in which the stapes sits. Involvement of the stapes in the disease process reduces its mobility, thus resulting in a conductive deafness. Until the fenestration operation was introduced no surgical tr...

Fenestration surgery for otosclerosis: CT findings of an old surgical procedure.

Numerous attempts to deal surgically with otosclerosis were made before the current method of stapedectomy with stapes prosthesis was established. We report a case with unique CT findings of a patient who underwent fenestration surgery for otosclerosis in the early 1940s. Recognition of this old surgical procedure on the imaging scans may avoid misdiagnosis of labyrinthine fistulae or middle an...

Laser versus conventional fenestration in stapedotomy for otosclerosis: a systematic review.

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To assess hearing results and complications following primary stapedotomy in otosclerosis patients comparing the use of laser and conventional techniques for fenestration. STUDY DESIGN Systematic literature review. METHODS A systematic bibliographic search was conducted in PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, a...