BACKGROUND This report compares the different surgical methods for large and pneumatized mastoid cavity (large cavity) and small and poorly pneumatized mastoid cavity (small cavity) cholesteatomas and their results for the facial nerve and mastoid cavity. METHODS In the period from January 1996 to December 2000, 101 ears with cholesteatomas underwent tympanoplasty with mastoidectomy. In the l...

Introduction  Canal wall down (CWD) mastoidectomy has many drawbacks, including chronic otorrhea not responding to medications, granulations, dizziness on exposure to cold or hot water, and tendency of debris accumulation in the mastoid cavity, demanding periodic cleaning. Many of these problems can be solved by reconstruction of the posterior meatal wall (PMW). Objectives  To assess the result...

Reconstruction of a facial defect is a complex modality either surgically or prosthetically, depending on the site, size, etiology, severity, age, and the patient’s expectation. Loss of an auricle, in the presence of an auditory canal, affects hearing, because the auricle gathers sound and directs it into the canal. The auricle acts as a resonator to slightly amplify lower frequency sound...

cerebellopontine angle, the mastoid, the middle ear and the external auditory canal. Of these, the mastoid cavity is the least frequent site of origin. Herein, we report an extremely rare case of congenital cholesteatoma of mastoid origin with extension into the epitympanum and presentation of conductive hearing loss. Computed tomography (CT) displayed anatomic anomalies including ossicular ero...

OBJECTIVES We evaluate the long-term surgical and hearing results using a canal wall down mastoidectomy technique followed by cavities obliteration, canal wall reconstruction and ossiculoplasty without staging. METHODS A total of 44 patients between January 2002 and October 2009 were selected and 27 of them were revision cases. Preoperative and postoperative pure tone average (PTA) and air-bo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare the audiometric outcomes of ossicular reconstruction with titanium prosthesis and autologous material. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Tertiary referral center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Audiometric results of consecutive patients who performed ossiculoplasty with titanium prosthesis (n = 43) or autologous material (n = 48), from October 2008 ...