It is also important to determine if the malleus is mobile by massaging the tympanic membrane under a Siebel otoscope and microscope. If the malleus is mobile, a normal stapedectomy can be performed, consisting of an incus to oval window prosthesis. This operation has a high rate of success (95%). If the malleus is fixed, however, it is necessary to create a malleus to oval window prosthesis. B...

DURING the past ten years there have been major advances in E.N.T. practice, particularly in the treatment of ear disease. Regretably, we have often failed to communicate these advances to our colleagues, particularly those in general practice. It is hoped to remedy this omission, at least in part, and so describe treatment now available to hard of hearing patients-available not just in London ...

IMPLICATIONS Ear acupuncture can decrease preoperative anxiety in adults undergoing outpatient surgery.

Otosclerosis is an otic capsule disorder that leads to progressive conductive and/or sensorineural hearing loss due to stapes footplate fixation and cochlear bone involvement. The disorder is bilateral in 70% of patients and it usually starts between the third and fifth decade. One of its characteristic clinical findings is Schwartze sign which refers to a reddish discoloration over the promont...

have been several reports on pneumolabyrinth after stapes surgery, it has been rarely observed after temporal bone fracture. Air within the inner ear can be found even in the case having otic capsule-disrupting temporal bone fracture without definite connection with the middle ear space, which suggests the possible connection between the inner ear and the air-filled mastoid or middle ear caviti...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cutaneous and the inner ear tolerance of bioactive glass S53P4 when used in the mastoid and epitympanic obliteration for chronic otitis surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-one cases have been included in this prospective study. Cutaneous tolerance was clinically evaluated 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months after surgery with a physical examination of the retroauricular an...

Two hundred and two operations on patients with a congenital ear malformation are presented. Special emphasis is placed on those patients seen in the past three years. The goal of surgery is normal, or near normal, hearing in the operated ear. The surgical approach is direct to the middle ear, and the mastoid air cell system is not opened. Temporalis fascia is used for the new tympanic membrane...