CONCLUSION Most of the clinical cases experienced taste disturbance after stapes surgery, and in a few cases this disturbance persisted for a long time. The animal experiment suggested the role of geniculate ganglion (GG) cells in nerve generation. OBJECTIVES To clinically examine taste disorder and its recovery after stapes surgery and experimentally demonstrate a role of GG. PATIENTS AND ...

A method is described that allows, for the first time, intraoperative vibration modes assessment of the acoustically stimulated stapes by means of scanning laser Doppler interferometry (LDI). The study was designed to answer the following questions: 1) Is LDI practical for taking measurements during surgery? 2) Are the results comparable to the findings in temporal bone preparations? and 3) Do ...

INTRODUCTION Otospongiosis is temporal bone osteodystrophy, characterized by disordered bone resorption and neoformation in genetically predisposed individuals. Clinically, otospongiosis is characterized by progressive conductive and/or mixed hearing loss and by tinnitus. OBJECTIVE A review of the last two decades of publications that report the degree of tinnitus improvement with stapes surg...

OBJECTIVES To study children who had undergone stapedectomy at an age younger than 16 years to determine the causes (particularly frequency of congenital anomalies vs otosclerosis) and to analyze the functional results over the short-term, 1-year, and long-term postsurgery time course. DESIGN Ten-year retrospective study covering 1998 to 2008. SETTING Pediatric tertiary care centers. PATI...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to analyze and compare the outcomes and complications of endoscopic stapes surgery versus microscopic stapes surgery. Patients and Methods: This study is a comparative analysis of patients with conductive hearing loss who were going to undergo stapedotomy at department of otorhinolaryngology, faculty of medicine, mansoura university, egypt, between September 2...

INTRODUCTION One of the most difficult and time-consuming steps in malleostapedotomy surgery is the crimping of the prosthesis onto the malleus handle manually. The advent of the nitinol prosthesis (Gyrus nitinol piston [GNP]; Gyrus ENT LLC, Bartlett, TN) significantly reduced the difficulty of this surgical step, rendering its fixation to the malleus easy and fast. However, Kwok et al. analyze...

Hearing loss and tinnitus are the main symptoms of otosclerosis. Little is known about the cause of tinnitus in otosclerosis and the factors influencing the effect of surgery on tinnitus. Though by surgery, we are able to inform patient about probable hearing gain and even benefit concerning bilateral hearing, it is however difficult to predict the course of tinnitus. The principle aim of stape...