OBJECTIVES This study aims to assess possible wound complications of tympanoplasty and tympanomastoidectomy with or without postoperative mastoid dressing. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 37 patients (22 females, 15 males; mean age: 23.88 years; range 9 to 64 years) who underwent middle ear or mastoid operations via postauricular incision were included in this prospective, randomized, control...

Introduction: The aim was to explore the developmental relationships between the angles of septal deviations and the degree of the mastoid pneumatization.   Materials and Methods: In total, 143 patients with a diagnosis of septal deviation who underwent septoplasty were included. The patients were divided into three groups in terms of the ...

Introduction: This study was designed to evaluate the usefulness of mastoid cavity obliteration with combined bone pâté and Palva flap in the prevention of problematic mastoid cavities after canal wall down mastoidectomy.   Materials and Methods: In a prospective longitudinal study with a mean follow-up of 28 months conducted between 2008–2012, a series of 56 ears in 48 patients with chronic ot...

S caphoid fossa and antihelix regions of the ear are often the sites of squamous cell carcinomas. A good reconstruction of these regions has to take into account tridimensionality of both cartilaginous frame and skin covering. The gold standard for reconstruction of these structures involves harvesting of a cartilage graft (usually from posterior concha) and turning over of a skin flap to cover...

Introduction. Congenital cholesteatoma is a pearly white mass that rarely originates from the mastoid process. Case Report. A 21-year-old male patient presented to our department with severe right mastoid pain and postauricular fluctuant swelling for 23 days. There was no preceding history of ear complaints and examination showed a normal right ear drum. Emergency exploration of the mastoid pro...

Congenital cholesteatomas of mastoid origin are extremely rare. We reported one in 2007 and experienced an additional case. A male presented with a 5-month history of right-sided ear discharge. Computed tomography of the temporal bone showed a soft tissue density occupying the mastoid tip. At surgery, the cholesteatoma sac was completely isolated from the mastoid antrum and lateral air cell in ...

Aim of this study was to determine sensitivity and specificity of the mastoid vibration test in patients who had suffered an attack of vestibular neuritis. Results were compared with the caloric test and two bedside tests of vestibular function (head shaking test and head thrust test). Results are reported in 28 patients who had a residual vestibular deficit 6 months after acute neuritis and in...

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence and localization of residual cholesteatomas in canal wall down tympanoplasty with soft-wall reconstruction with results with the canal wall down and open tympanoplasty or canal wall up tympanoplasty. DESIGN Retrospective case-series study. SETTING Tertiary care university hospital. PATIENTS Eighty-five patients (85 ears) with fresh extensive cholesteatom...