INTRODUCTION Otospongiosis is temporal bone osteodystrophy, characterized by disordered bone resorption and neoformation in genetically predisposed individuals. Clinically, otospongiosis is characterized by progressive conductive and/or mixed hearing loss and by tinnitus. OBJECTIVE A review of the last two decades of publications that report the degree of tinnitus improvement with stapes surg...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the audiometric results of primary stapes surgery in patients with otosclerosis and to determine predictors of a postoperative air-bone gap (ABG) of 10 dB or less and a postoperative gain in air conduction (AC) exceeding 20 dB. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary referral center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. PATIENTS Nine hundred thirty-nine patients ...

OBJECTIVES To study children who had undergone stapedectomy at an age younger than 16 years to determine the causes (particularly frequency of congenital anomalies vs otosclerosis) and to analyze the functional results over the short-term, 1-year, and long-term postsurgery time course. DESIGN Ten-year retrospective study covering 1998 to 2008. SETTING Pediatric tertiary care centers. PATI...

Background and Objectives Stapes surgery has been widely used to improve the conductive hearing loss caused by stapedial fixation. The purpose of this study is evaluate causes fixation using audiological results 100 stapes surgeries. Subjects Method We reviewed medical records consecutive surgeries between June 2011 December 2022. A total ears from 86 patients were included patient age ranged 6...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether ossicular reconstruction (OCR) performed concurrent with tympanomastoidectomy for cholesteatoma results in significantly different hearing results when compared to OCR performed in a separate, staged procedure. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study subjects were patients undergoing OCR within a 2-year period. Intervention was OCR concurrent ...