OBJECTIVES This study aims to investigate the effect of formaldehyde treatment of temporalis muscle fascia grafts used during tympanoplasty on the postoperative success rates. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty-four patients who underwent tympanoplasty between January 2006 and January 2007 in the Department of Otolaryngology, Medicine Faculty of Uludağ University and who were under regular follow-up ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the microsurgical skills training on a tympanoplasty model with regard to the learning curve and the participants' motivation for a surgical specialty. STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled prospective study. SETTING Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Campus Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. SUBJECTS Thirty rand...

Introduction / objectives Surgical gloves create a protective barrier, however high perforation rates (6%>60%) are reported in the literature. A recent study has suggested linkage between glove perforation and increased risk of SSI. This investigation evaluated a model of microbial passage through conventional single (A), double-thickness (B) and a tri-layer innovative surgical glove (C) with a...

UNLABELLED The three well recognized tympanoplasty approaches: permeatal, postaural, and endaural, each have advantages and disadvantages. The permeatal approach is suitable only for ears with adequate canal size. The postaural approach limits visualization of the posterior eardrum margin. The endaural approach limits the view of the eardrum's anterior margin. This study describes a modified en...

Traditionally, total skin electron patients remove all clothing for treatment. It is generally assumed that this is best for the treatment of superficial skin lesions out of concern clothing may significantly perturb dose. We investigate the dosimetric effect of patient gowns and determine the necessity of treating patients naked. Using GAFCHROMIC EBT2 film, dose to a cylindrical phantom was me...

The main function of the middle ear is well-known. It serves as a mechanical transformer, designed for transmission of acoustic energy from the external air to the cochlea fluids. In the absence of such energy transformer of the vibrational motion of air particles will be reflected at the on the border with the labyrinth fluid. The appearance of the corresponding mechanical amplification leads ...

A method of synthesizing and controlling the size of germanium nanocrystals is developed. A tri-layer metalinsulator-semiconductor (MIS) memory device structure comprising of a thin (~5nm) silicon dioxide (SiO2) layer grown using rapid thermal oxidation (RTO), followed by a layer of Ge+SiO2 of varying thickness (3 6 nm) deposited using a radio frequency (rf) co-sputtering technique, and a cappi...