Title: Surgical findings in revision tympanoplasty
Abstract: A retrospective study of 135 patients (152 ears) with the surgical findings in revision tympanoplasty of their cases will be reported. No mastoidectomy was performed. Temporalis fascia graft was used in all cases. Cases of recurrent cholesteatoma or persistent otorrhea and planned second stage operations were excluded. Underlay technique was used in 138 cases, mediolateral in 9 cases and in 5 cases overlay. The findings were failure of anterior adaptation, atrophy of the graft and infection and in some cases, no cause could be found. Hearing results after revision surgery were assessed and closure of air bone gap within 10 to 25 dB was accomplished in most of the cases. Thirty-nine ears (25.7%) showed no improvement, seven ears (4.6%) had mixed hearing loss and three (2%) developed sensorineural hearing loss at high frequency. Details of the surgical findings and causes of failure will be presented and discussed.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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