Editorial The clinical treatment of hearing loss is at once sophisticated and crude. Surgeons can use microsurgical techniques and lasers to manipulate ossicular prostheses fractions of a millimeter with often astounding improvement in hearing, for example, in the case of stapes fixation due to otosclerosis. For profound sensorineural impairment, the cochlea may be surgically implanted with an ...

Salivary gland choristomata are heterotopic rests which have rarely been reported in the middle ear. A case report of a salivary gland choristoma of the middle ear is presented and the literature reviewed. The frequent association of ossicular chain and facial nerve anomalies is emphasized.

BACKGROUND Middle ear surgery aims to eliminate pathology from the middle ear, improve drainage and ventilation of the postoperative cavity, and reconstruct the tympanic membrane and ossicles. The aim of this work is to define the factors that affect ABG (air-bone gap) and bone conduction in the patients operated on due to chronic otitis media. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective analysis of p...

INTRODUCTION Children cholesteatoma have been shown to demonstrate aggressive growth with greater extension and higher rates residual and recurrent disease compared with adults, due to anatomic and physiologic differences. AIM This study aimed to determine the clinical and pathological features of cholesteatoma in young children less than 7 years of age. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective r...

OBJECTIVES Many microphones have been developed to meet with the implantable requirement of totally implantable cochlear implant (TICI). However, a biocompatible one without destroying the intactness of the ossicular chain still remains under investigation. Such an implantable floating piezoelectric microphone (FPM) has been manufactured and shows an efficient electroacoustic performance in vit...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To prospectively evaluate surgical findings and hearing results in children undergoing surgery for congenital oval or round window malformations (class IV malformations). STUDY DESIGN A nonrandomized, nonblinded, case series of prospectively collected data. METHODS Fourteen consecutive pediatric patients who underwent 17 surgical procedures for congenital oval or round...

Objective To compare audiometric results between the standard total ossicular replacement prosthesis (TORP-S) and a new fat interposition total ossicular replacement prosthesis (TORP-F) in pediatric and adult patients and to assess the complication and the undesirable outcome. Study design This is a retrospective study. Methods This study included 104 patients who had undergone titanium imp...