OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to evaluate the results of the tympanoplasty in chronic otitis media in its functional aspect. METHODS We analysed and categorized 489 tympanoplasties using Wullstein classification. The operations were performed in the Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology Department of the University School of Medicine in Bydgoszcz, Poland, from 2004 to 2009. The grou...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of partial ossicular chain reconstruction using autologous cartilage. DESIGN Prospective study (April 1, 1997, through January 1, 2008). SETTING Tertiary academic children's hospital. PATIENTS Two hundred forty-eight children (268 ears) underwent partial ossicular chain reconstruction using a shaped block of tragal cartilage interposed between the head of ...

INTRODUCTION To demonstrate surgical techniques and to compare the anatomical and functional outcomes between temporalis fascia and cartilage palisade grafting in type-I underlay tympanoplasty in patients with large/subtotal perforation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Temporalis fascia and cartilage palisade grafting were conducted in Group A and Group B, respectively, each containing 30 patients with...

Background: Chronic otitis media (COM) is defined as a perforation of the tympanic membrane with persistent drainage pus from middle ear lasting at least two weeks. Tympanoplasty surgical procedure in ENT practice which aims removal diseased pathology along reconstruction sound conducting mechanism by reconstructing ossicular chain various materials. Methods:All cases CSOM deformity were includ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Endoscopic ear surgery provides a minimally invasive approach to the middle ear. The disadvantage of endoscopic ear surgery is that it is a single-handed surgical technique. The nondominant hand of the surgeon is utilized for holding and manipulating the endoscope. This necessitated the need for the development of an endoscope holder that would allow both hands to be free ...