Objective: Describe the clinical course and management of a labyrinthine cyst associated with a labyrinthine fistula arising in a longstanding cavity after a canal wall down mastoidectomy. Study Design: Case report. Setting: University Hospital, tertiary referral center. Patients, Intervention, and Results: A 71-year-old woman who underwent left radical mastoidectomy at age 7 was referred to ou...

Abstract Background Cholesteatoma is an atticoantral disease that potentially causes life-threatening complications. Therefore, canal wall down mastoidectomy a well-established technique to eradicate the disease, especially in extensive cholesteatoma. Aim To evaluate status of dry ear and hearing outcome post-retrograde mastoidectomy. Methods A retrospective study patients with cholesteatoma wh...

This study was done to compare the pre and post-operative hearing results in patients undergoing canal wall down mastoidectomy with classical type III tympanoplasty using temporalis fascia alone. Patients of >or=5 years age with the diagnosis of Chronic otitis media (squamous) with conductive or mixed hearing loss, needing canal wall down mastoidectomy and with intact and mobile stapes suprastr...

Abstract Background This study was designed to evaluate the effect of mastoid cavity obliteration with bone chips and reconstruction canal wall tragal cartilage after down tympanomastoidectomy ossiculoplasty in same session. Sixty-three patients cholesteatoma underwent technique mentioned above; were followed for 1 year postoperative. Results No problems, median preoperative air gap 32.86 ± 6.2...