Objectives To evaluate the success of pediatric endoscopic and endoscopically assisted transcanal cartilage inlay tympanoplasty. Methods Retrospective review of single surgeon experience. Results During a 3 year period, 30 children underwent 31 endoscopic or endoscopically assisted transcanal tympanoplasties by the senior surgeon using tragal cartilage/perichondrial inlay grafts. There were...

OBJECTIVE To identify prognostic factors affecting outcome in lateral tympanoplasty for total or near-total tympanic membrane perforation. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS Patients were those presenting with total or near-total tympanic membrane perforation undergoing lateral tympanoplasty from 1999 to 2004. We systematically collected demographic, clinical, audiologic, and o...

INTRODUCTION The use of cartilage as a grafting material has been advocated in cases where there is a high risk of graft failure, such as subtotal perforations, adhesive processes, and residual defects after primary tympanoplasties. The purpose of this study was to compare the graft acceptance rates and auditory outcomes of cartilage tympanoplasty operations using a palisade technique with thos...

Tympanoplasty performed using 270 degree subannular flap has shown better success rates. This technique is quite useful for large subtotal tympanic membrane perforations. case report successfully demonstrated the feasibility of performing this difficult surgical endoscopically and thus avoiding a post auricular scar reducing morbidity to patient.

Introduction: Chronic suppurative otitis media is a major public health problem in children and adults. Tympanoplasty is a surgical procedure which aims to prevent recurrent otorrhea and restore hearing ability. Objective: To compare the graft uptake and the hearing outcome of tympanoplasty in non cholesteatomatous chronic otitis media between wet and totally dry ears. Methods: A total of 108 w...

Aim of the study was to evaluate the functional results, in two homogeneous groups, for severity of the disease, submitted to canal-wall-down tympanoplasty (TPL CWD), with and without ossiculoplasty. A total of 60 patients who underwent canal-wall-down tympanoplasty for cholesteatoma were evaluated: 31 underwent ossiculoplasty (group A) and 29 classic Wullstein type III and IV operation (group ...

Objective. The aim of this study is to evaluate the results of inlay butterfly tympanoplasty technique in large central tympanic membrane perforations. Methods. The files of the patients who underwent inlay butterfly cartilage tympanoplasty for large central tympanic membrane perforations were reviewed. Patients were followed with otoscopy and audiometry. Preoperative and postoperative pure-ton...

chronic otitis media is a common disease which can lead to serious complications or even death. betterment of eustachian tube function is effective on results of operations. the main goal of this study was to determine the effect of eustachian tube function on outcome of graft in tympanoplasty or tympanomastoidectomy for chronic otitis media. we prospectively studied 126 patients who underwent ...

introduction: tympanoplasty is the standard and well established procedure for closure of tympanic membrane perforations .this paper compares the results of tympanoplasty in terms of hearing improvement and graft incorporation in patients with chronic perforation of the tympanic membrane between two groups with and without active drainage at the time of surgery.  materials and methods: sixty re...