UNLABELLED Tympanoplasty is done to eradicate ear pathology and to restore the conductive hearing mechanism (eardrum and ossicles). Some patients, however, do not tolerate tinnitus and question physicians about the results of surgery when tinnitus persists. AIM to evaluate the progression of tinnitus in patients with conductive hearing loss after tympanoplasty. STUDY DESIGN a prospective co...

OBJECTIVE To determine which preoperative conditions or surgical techniques may influence the success of tympanoplasty in the pediatric population. DATA SOURCES A MEDLINE search of the English-language literature from 1966 to May 1997 was conducted using the search terms pediatric or child and tympanoplasty or myringoplasty. STUDY SELECTION Articles that provided age-specific data on tympan...

Objective We aim to demonstrate inner ear damage caused by drilling in the early period. Healthy contralateral ears of patients who underwent mastoidectomy using drill or tympanoplasty without using drill were compared. Methods A total of 38 patients (mastoidectomy: 22, tympanoplasty: 16) who were diagnosed as chronic otitis media and were scheduled for surgery were included. Distortion produ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Surgical repair of large anterior tympanic membrane (TM) perforations continue to be a challenge for the otologic surgeon. Lateral graft tympanoplasty, the recommended treatment, is technically difficult and is plagued with blunting of the anterior sulcus and lateralization of the TM, both of which can lead to conductive hearing loss. In this study, we evaluate the efficac...