OBJECTIVES This study aims to investigate the effect of formaldehyde treatment of temporalis muscle fascia grafts used during tympanoplasty on the postoperative success rates. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty-four patients who underwent tympanoplasty between January 2006 and January 2007 in the Department of Otolaryngology, Medicine Faculty of Uludağ University and who were under regular follow-up ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the microsurgical skills training on a tympanoplasty model with regard to the learning curve and the participants' motivation for a surgical specialty. STUDY DESIGN Randomized controlled prospective study. SETTING Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Campus Carl Gustav Carus at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. SUBJECTS Thirty rand...

UNLABELLED The three well recognized tympanoplasty approaches: permeatal, postaural, and endaural, each have advantages and disadvantages. The permeatal approach is suitable only for ears with adequate canal size. The postaural approach limits visualization of the posterior eardrum margin. The endaural approach limits the view of the eardrum's anterior margin. This study describes a modified en...

The main function of the middle ear is well-known. It serves as a mechanical transformer, designed for transmission of acoustic energy from the external air to the cochlea fluids. In the absence of such energy transformer of the vibrational motion of air particles will be reflected at the on the border with the labyrinth fluid. The appearance of the corresponding mechanical amplification leads ...

We wish to address the article entitled “Tympanoplasty Outcomes for Blast-Induced Perforations from Iraq and Afghanistan: 20072012” by Song et al. The authors retrospectively analyzed the healing outcome of tympanoplasty for 68 blast-induced tympanic membrane perforations (TMPs) and concluded that tympanoplasty can prove challenging in this population. The work is both excellent and interesting...

OBJECTIVES To correlate the recurrence of temporalis fascia graft perforation and retraction in adults and children after tympanoplasty for chronic tubotympanic otitis and deep attic retraction pockets with age, pathologic process, mucosal lesions, mucociliary transport time, chronic sinusitis, and lateral attic wall reconstruction. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Tertiary referral cent...