Combined hearing loss is an essential indication for implantable hearing systems. Depending on the bone conduction threshold, various options are available: Patients with mild sensorineural deafness usually benefit from transcutaneous BCI, while percutaneous BCI systems are recommended also for moderate hearing loss. For combined hearing loss with moderate and high-grade cochlear hearing loss, ...

Patients who have had middle-ear or mastoid surgery are at an increased risk of developing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) otorrhoea. The CSF leak is usually from defects in the tegmen or posterior cranial fossa. We present a patient with CSF otorrhoea following a modified radical mastoidectomy seven years ago. There was an unusual communication between the internal auditory meatus (IAM) and the midd...

Conclusions: Once a week middle ear inflation over a 4-week period was efficacious in the treatment of OME in the shortterm but it did not provide satisfactory long-term benefits. Autoinflation may avoid the need for drugs or surgery for middle ear effusion and it may be considered as an alternative to the other choices of treatment of OME. However, further efficacy studies investigating the id...

PURPOSE Initial study of the pig`s temporal bone anatomy in order to enable a new experimental model in ear surgery. METHODS Dissection of five temporal bones of Sus scrofa pigs obtained from UNIFESP - Surgical Skills Laboratory, removed with hole saw to avoid any injury and stored in formaldehyde 10% for better conservation. The microdissection in all five temporal bone had the following ste...