OBJECTIVES This study aims to compare the hearing outcomes after canal wall up mastoidectomy (CWUM) and canal wall down mastoidectomy (CWDM). PATIENTS AND METHODS Ninety-two patients (74 males, 18 females; mean age 30.1 years; range 9 to 67 years) who were diagnosed with chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) between January 2009 and May 2011 were enrolled in this retrospective study. Based ...

Biographies Danny Kelly is a PhD student in the Bioengineering Group at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. He graduated with a first class honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Trinity College in 1999. For his masters degree in 2001 he wrote a thesis entitled " A study of middle ear biomechanics using the finite element method ". A W Blayney is a consultant ENT surgeon and P J Prendergast...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to make a review of the patients who underwent ossicular chain reconstruction with titanium prosthesis during an eight-year period in our Department. METHODS A retrospective study was made on the ossiculoplasty cases over a period of eight years in a Public Hospital District. The information was extracted by clinical process consultation. Between 1999 and...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the initial and longer term success of closing the air-bone gap (ABG) to 20 dB in ossiculoplasty with canal wall down mastoidectomy. METHODS This study was conducted at a private otologic practice. Patients included those who underwent ossiculoplasty from 1989 to 1996 with canal wall down mastoidectomy, whether primary or revision (33 from a tot...