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...

OBJECTIVE To compare hearing results in patients who underwent ossiculoplasty for Austin-Kartush group A impairments (incus erosion, malleus handle present, stapes superstructure present) with the results in patients with an intact ossicular chain who required only myringoplasty. The literature on hearing results of ossiculoplasty with different types of prostheses and different techniques is r...

OBJECTIVE To determine factors that predict hearing results using a standard prosthesis system. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS All patients undergoing ossiculoplasty with the Dornhoffer HAPEX partial and total ossicular replacement prostheses (PORP and TORP) from February 1995 to May 1999 who had documented postoperative follow-up and n...

Objective The purpose of this study is to evaluate our experience with endoscopic repair of ossicular discontinuity at the incudostapedial joint, with or without an intact stapes suprastructure, and present our hearing results. We classify results based on the causative pathology, the type of ossiculoplasty, and type of lesion. We demonstrate the ability to endoscopically place a total ossicula...

Aim of the study was to evaluate the functional results, in two homogeneous groups, for severity of the disease, submitted to canal-wall-down tympanoplasty (TPL CWD), with and without ossiculoplasty. A total of 60 patients who underwent canal-wall-down tympanoplasty for cholesteatoma were evaluated: 31 underwent ossiculoplasty (group A) and 29 classic Wullstein type III and IV operation (group ...

OBJECTIVES To determinate whether ossicular chain reconstruction performed with modified double-cartilage block (DCB) ossiculoplasty used by authors, leaving the intact perichondrium layer on the cartilage surface in contact with tympanic membrane, results in significant hearing results and prevents DCB displacement and DCB loss of stiffness when compared with the original DCB technique describ...