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...

INTRODUCTION Chronic perforated otitis media, which is usually caused by severe or recurrent otitis media in childhood, can cause gradual deterioration of residual hearing. Therefore, early surgical intervention is desirable. Many researchers have investigated the relationship between age and the results of tympanoplasty in chronic otitis media [1, 2]. Tympanoplasty in elderly patients is accep...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the acoustic effect after canal wall-down tympanoplasty with sectioning of the tensor tympani muscle (TTM) tendon in patients with chronic otitis media. STUDY DESIGN Prospective, controlled clinical trial. METHODS From January 2010 to April 2014, 212 patients underwent canal wall-down tympanoplasty with ossicular chain reconstruction in one-stage surgery. F...

AIM The objective of the present study was to analyse the causes behind reperforation of the tympanic membrane in the patients presenting with chronic otitis media (mesotympanitis) after type I--III intrameatal tympanoplasty. Characteristic of the patients and methods of investigation. Intrameatal type I--III tympanoplasty with the use of autotransplants was performed in 652 patients presenting...