OBJECTIVES A non-progressive and conductive hearing loss with normal eardrum, but no history of trauma and infection, is highly suggestive of a congenital ossicular malformation. Among ossicular anomalies, stapes anomaly is the most common. The purpose of this study is to describe patterns of stapes anomaly and to analyze its surgical outcome with special reference to its patterns. METHODS We...

A total of 20 stapedotomy and 24 stapedectomy cases were retrospectively reviewed to establish the causes of failure, and to evaluate hearing results after revision surgery. Our series included 23 male and 21 female patients. Mean age at revision time was 42 years, and the mean interval from primary surgery and revision stapes surgery was 27 months. The retrospective review of our data, reveale...

OBJECTIVE To determine functional results after lateral semicircular canal fenestration on congenital conductive hearing loss. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Amir-Alam otolaryngology tertiary referral center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Twenty patients with congenital oval window malformations who were not candidates for ossicular reconstruction underwent lateral semicircula...

INTRODUCTION Despite advances in imaging and other diagnostic tests, it is often impossible to establish with confidence a pre-operative diagnosis in a patient with a conductive hearing loss. METHODS We studied a series of 340 exploratory tympanotomies for conductive hearing loss carried out by a single surgeon. RESULTS The most common operative diagnosis was otosclerosis (n = 164, 48.2 per...

A three-generation family with Saethre-Chotzen syndrome and an isolated case are presented. The proband presented with conductive hearing loss. His mother and grandmother showed minor features of the syndrome including conductive hearing loss. Symptoms of the craniosynostosis syndromes can include stapes ankylosis, a fixed ossicular chain in a too small epitympanum, and small or even absent mas...