OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to make a review of the patients who underwent ossicular chain reconstruction with titanium prosthesis during an eight-year period in our Department. METHODS A retrospective study was made on the ossiculoplasty cases over a period of eight years in a Public Hospital District. The information was extracted by clinical process consultation. Between 1999 and...

OBJECTIVE To determine the feasibility of measuring tympanic membrane (TM) vibrations at multiple locations on the TM to differentiate normal eardrums from those with associated ossicular pathologies. DESIGN Cadaveric human temporal bone study. SETTING Basic science laboratory. METHODS A mastoidectomy and facial recess approach was performed on four cadaveric temporal bones to obtain acce...

INTRODUCTION Disjunction of ossicular chain is a common finding in middle ear chronic disease. In addition to ossicular interposition, various materials have been used for reconstruction, such as ceramic prostheses, polyethylene, and titanium. OBJECTIVE Because of the high cost of the available options, the authors propose to reconstruct the ossicular chain with resin cement, a material typic...

BACKGROUND Recently, a model of the ossicular chain for finite element analysis has been developed. However, the natural vibration characteristics of human ossicles have never been studied. Herein, we investigated the dynamic characteristics of the coupling of in-vivo ossicles using finite element analysis. METHODS The geometry of the ossicular chain was obtained by high-resolution computed t...

OBJECTIVE To report an original method of ossicular reconstruction with intact stapes and absent malleus. Ossiculoplasty is performed with a total ossicular replacement prosthesis positioned from the stapes footplate to the under-surface of the tympanic membrane, using a Silastic banding technique to stabilize the prosthesis. STUDY DESIGN A prospective study of ossicular reconstruction using ...

The ossicular chain has been known for 500 years and yet there are a small number of morphometrical studies. We reviewed the whole literature that is available online regarding the human ossicular chain from an anatomist perspective and correlated the data from all the papers that showed any relevance. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed a priori. A thorough description of all ossic...

The diagnosis of the ossicular condition, fixation or interruption, is often not achieved by the routine tympanometry. A new tympanometric system has been developed in order to improve the diagnostic value. This produces a sweep-frequency probe tone of 200 to 2000Hz and measures the sound pressure difference and the phase difference between the output and the input. An experimental study was pe...

Chronic suppurative otitis media, with or without cholesteatoma, may lead to erosion of the ossicles and discontinuity of the ossicular chain. In incomplete ossicular discontinuity (IOD), partial erosion of the ossicles occurs, but some sound transmission is noted throughout the ossicular chain. High-frequency conductive hearing loss (HfCHL) has been considered a hallmark of incomplete ossicula...

OBJECTIVE To analyse patients with cholesteatoma undergoing canal wall down mastoidectomy together with ossicular reconstruction with a titanium prosthesis, in order to identify factors associated with hearing outcomes. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of 97 cases undergoing single-stage surgical management. METHODS All patients underwent canal wall down mastoidectomy. Kurz titanium ossicu...