OBJECTIVE To compare hearing results in patients who underwent ossiculoplasty for Austin-Kartush group A impairments (incus erosion, malleus handle present, stapes superstructure present) with the results in patients with an intact ossicular chain who required only myringoplasty. The literature on hearing results of ossiculoplasty with different types of prostheses and different techniques is r...

OBJECTIVES To study the ontogenic development of the organisation of the human middle ear ossicles structure. MATERIAL AND METHODS 46 human temporal bones of ages varying from 32 days post-conception to newborns. RESULTS The development of the structural organisation of the malleus begins at 16 weeks via two cortical fascicles situated in the neck; at 21 weeks they extend towards the head, ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To review long-term hearing results after intact canal wall mastoidectomy with tympanoplasty for treatment of cholesteatoma and to identify factors associated with improved hearing outcomes. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective analysis of all cases of cholesteatoma treated with intact canal wall mastoidectomy at a single institution by the senior author over a period of 9 years...

Sylvia Townsend Warner reviewed Montague Summers’s book on witchcraft and demonology in 1926. She took an ironic sceptical view of his denunciatory fervour.

The middle ear ossicles are important due to transmission of sound to the inner ear leading to sound understanding. The aim of present study was to determine the anatomical and morphometrical aspects of middle ear ossicles in Makouei sheep fetuses. For this experimental study, eight sheep fetuses at the age of 2 to 3 months were provided from public slaughterhouse; their middle ear ossicles wer...