Delayed facial paralysis that occurs days or weeks after a trouble-free ear surgery is rare condition. Although its prognosis generally good, it frightening result for both the patient and surgeon. This troubling complication has mostly been reported only tympano-mastoidectomy, stapes surgery, cochlear implant, endolymphatic surgery. As far as we have investigated in literature, our case first ...

BACKGROUND Bone conduction (BC) threshold depression is not always by means of sensory neural hearing loss and sometimes it is an artifact caused by middle ear pathologies and ossicular chain problems. In this research, the influences of ear surgeries on bone conduction were evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted as a clinical trial study. The ear surgery performed on 83 pa...

Background: Transcanal endoscopic ear surgery has many advantages over conventional microscopic ear surgery and is used as adjunct to microscope or is used independently. Precise large visual field and angular vision has edge over the clumsy, expensive, peeping tubular vision of microscopes. Moreover, it is a better teaching methodology for the undergraduates and postgraduates. Our study compri...

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 ref...

We report the case of a 51-year-old woman with multiple otologic and vestibular symptoms. She presented two different types tinnitus in her right ear, vertigo, fluctuating aural symptoms left ear. also complained disequilibrium; chronic headache; hyperhidrosis; amenorrhea; insomnia; broadened hands feet; widened, thickened, stubby fingers. The patient underwent careful collection medical histor...

Background and objectives: Type I tympanoplasty is a common otologic surgery which aims to repair the eardrum integrity. Different views have been reported concerning this procedure in young ages and the best moment to perform surgery remains controversial. Surgery in early adolescence appears to achieve the same outcomes than adulthood and without disadvantages of childhood. Characteristics of...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Tinnitus is a symptom of high prevalence in patients with cochlear pathology. We studied the evolution of tinnitus in patients undergoing unilateral cochlear implantation for treatment of profound hearing loss. METHODS This was a longitudinal, retrospective study of patients that underwent unilateral cochlear implantation and who had bilateral tinnitus. Tinnitus wa...

INTRODUCTION In this report, we describe the clinical course, diagnostic features and management of a patient with fibrous dysplasia of the temporal bone 7 years after middle ear surgery on the same side. CASE PRESENTATION A 16-year-old Caucasian girl presented to our hospital with a growing bone lesion in the roof of the left temporal bone. She had undergone a previous tympanoplasty at 7 yea...

OBJECTIVE Otologic surgery is undertaken to treat ailments of the ear, including persistent infections, hearing loss, vertigo, and cancer. Typically performed on otherwise-healthy patients in outpatient facilities, the application of image-guided surgery (IGS) has been limited because accurate (<1 mm), non-invasive fiducial systems for otologic surgery have not been available. We now present su...

Objective: To determine the relationship of sensori neural hearing loss and surgery for chronic otitis media. Methodology: This study was designed as a clinical trial on 90 patients with chronic otitis media (COM), who were admitted in hospital for Tympanoplasty and Mastoidectomy who were selected for the study. A pre and post, bone conduction hearing test was performed in frequencies 250 to 40...